"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it."

"Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

"If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both."

"If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived."