Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.

In an age of immediacy the idea of waiting sounds hopelessly outdated. But that said, there is something to be said about anticipation...

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

TV shows and stuff give people in the show business very bad names. I'm not going to name any shows, but a lot of shows.

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.

A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, "Yes, someone like me can do this."

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.