In all adversity, what God takes away He may give us back with increase.

Never dwell on the tomorrow; remember, that it's God's and not ours.

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.

Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither.

Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.

A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they are.

Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and see and earth.

The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.

And, of course, the funniest food: "kumquats". I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone that battles some kind of addiction.

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.