The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom

I think in reality the Japanese have to make changes in monetary policy, otherwise we're still going to be dealing with some upward pressure on the yen against the dollar.

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.

Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he or she lives better and happier. Bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may flow.

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.

At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

Liberals in blue states working in blue enclaves within blue cities that are producing the media, don't even see that their positions fit on the spectrum as left of center.

I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.

If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

Imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists.

My first record - it was 1991. I was 16 years old. My first album came out when I was 20. So, I've been here that long and I still have the passion to do it.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.