A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Christ’s church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.

Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters.

The greatest stupidity in man is not his arrogance or ignorance, it he failing to realize who he is.

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

Music saved my life a few times because I could play the stuff rednecks loved. They thought I was great and they wondered why I didn't do that all the time.

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.