To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

The people who influence you are people who believe in you.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Patience is the highest asceticism.

There are many things in life I hope to experience and attend, but so many more I'm hoping that I miss.

Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.

I collect lucky pennies that I find on the ground. I keep them in a Ziploc bag.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers.

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.