carve your name on hearts and not on marble.

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

All money is essentially merchandize.

Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight.

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.

I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.

Don't blame others when something goes wrong. Don't blame yourself endlessly, either. Just find ways to do it differently next time.

Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.

If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.

Not eating meat really keeps me trim....meat, and what's usually served with it, is a big calorie packer.