Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

We do not judge the people we love.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.