The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

The ones that love us never really leave us.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.