The great doing of little things, makes the great life.

If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities, we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch. Not because of our lovely characters, but because of his.

God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.

We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.

There is no one anywhere as available to everyone everywhere as is God.

Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!

Joy is God in the marrow of our bones.

Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.

it is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint.

Your integrity is your personal code of honor and has the power to build your reputation or destroy it, establish credibility or crumble it—in one swift move.

Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's some kind of high-calorie compensation.

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. ... Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous.

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

Love is real, real is love.

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.