Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can.

Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love. Those who love most, see most.

Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.

It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.

... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.

Those who love most, see most.

Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.

It's better to have no control and be in the center of God's plan for your life than have total control and be completely lost to your destiny.

Not everyone is always going to like you. What impresses one person may turn another away. To thine own self be true.

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.

I think I got hooked up because I try to do good things with the NBA, and they always want somebody who's notable and who's personable with people.

There are no fears out there. There is nothing we cannot handle. It is just how we prepare ourselves mentaly and physically.

We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.