“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.

Things never happen the same way twice.

I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.

Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

I have skills like a panther, and I am going to change my destiny with it.

Destiny is a funny thing. You never know how things are going to work out. But if you keep an open mind and an open heart, I promise you will find your own destiny someday.

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny – he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed.

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

If you’re really a mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

You have to trust in something–your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.