Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea.

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.

As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.

To read and write is a paradise.

The writer's job is to tell the truth.

Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything.

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.

I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.