God gives us opportunity to serve him by serving humanity

The brightest stars emerge out of the blackest darkness

Sincere prayer is answered by unfailing grace.

Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. God will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle.

The essence of right living is to do good to others.

Worship offered with stale flowers and an unclean mind is of no value.

Seek not material wealth, seek the Lord who owns it all

Surrender yourself to God and be at peace with him.

He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness

When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.