Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.

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.

(M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.

Most Americans have so much crap, that you could lose most of it and still have way more stuff than the average Canadian.

It's always easy to judge from afar