Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world

World, you are beautifully drest.

You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!

you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all

Take me to your darkest cornersand watch your demonssurrender to mine..

It is only when you don't want to do something that you never get the time to do it.

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.

God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.

You can't really move forward if you don't heal the past and identify and address the fact that you had a problem and in some cases still have issues. That has to be dealt with.

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]

Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.