No pleasure without pain.

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.

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

The truth is that we live in a world that diminishes possibilities.

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.

Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

Everybody thinks their website is above average.

I don't even think of going to Europe as going to another country now.