“If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.”

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.

Faith enables many of us to endure life’s difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

Living by faith isn’t living with certainty. It’s trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.