An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!

Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.

Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing.

Only God can take our failures and turn them into victories.

He uses our past to positively affect our present and secure our future.

Sometimes it takes a meltdown to cool down.

Truth is the strongest weapon against the darkness of lies! EL

Love is the greatest debt to be in…but is not meant to bankrupt you!

The more we talk about our troubles and our fears, the more life we breathe into them". HS/el

When we are anxious about what is going to happen next, we are not staying in our now!

Joy is not a denial of painful circumstances, but a certainty that He is at work while we are in them. EL

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law

Behind every fortune there is a crime.

How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.

There is a transcendent power in example.

New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.