Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.

Love God, serve God; everything is in that.

Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.

Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.

O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord and let your service be according to reason.

...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.

When those who have the opportunity to speak to those politicians they must do so and if one doesn't have that opportunity to speak directly, they can still speak indirectly and it can be heard.

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

It's taking our officers much longer to respond to an accident because they have to fight their way through all of the traffic just to get to the scene

The mind, like any muscle, must be exercised.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich

And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.