You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

No man was ever wise by chance

Sometimes life hands us a mirror and dares us to take a look.

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

But I don't know what guys I like because I haven't been out with enough to know. I'm still learning.

God is seen as a male whose first creation was another man, Adam, whom we are told was made in his image and likeness.

If ministry is not about compassion and passion, let it die.

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.

Angels do not intend to intimidate or scare, but their overwhelming glory and being will stun us into sudden contact with what is far beyond us.