Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof.

Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust...

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.

Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'

I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.

I don't believe in atheists.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.

The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'

Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.