So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

Kisses kept are wasted; love is to be tasted.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

Don't fight with the pillow but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

You are beaten to earth? Well well what's that? Come up with a smiling face it's nothing against you to fall down flat but to lie there - that's disgrace.

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.

You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.

If we were made in his image then call us by our names. Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same

All things are in all.

When it comes to guys, make sure you are treated like a princess, always.

The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.