The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

Learn to work on your work.

Somewhere along the line we stopped trying to fix the child that we had expected and started to enjoy the child that was.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best.

You can't have an all-girl band! They'll get pregnant, and they'll never stay together.

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.