The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.