Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

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.

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.