"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."

"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me."

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

"Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him."

"I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me."

"If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world."