Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly to try to express what it's separate individuality is.

Don’t let the acids of bitterness eat away inside. Learn the secret of trusting Christ in every circumstance.

Reading is at the beginning of the social contract.

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.

I've never met a bread basket that I didn't love. At the same time, it can make me tired.

There's nobody who cares more about you than you, and there's nobody better equipped to take care of you than you.

What the morrow's years might bring 'twas sin for man to know.

I parked in the tow-away zone, and when I got back, the entire neighborhood was gone.