Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

My life has been very full.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.

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.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

No man was ever wise by chance.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.