When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

If youth only knew, if age only could.

There is a certain kind of darkness that seeps into our lives if we are not actively engaged in creating light.

Many believe that pagan worship is a thing of the past, but it is ever present—we have just given it a new name: pop culture.

Heaven has no room for the self-righteous.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences.