Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Lights, " I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

When you cultivate love and kindness in your heart, everything around you becomes love and kindness.

And we, from within the sigh of the trees, and the soft moss underfoot, and the calling of night birds, watched him as he watched, gazing where he should not.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.

In a town church the right place for the admission of light.

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth.

Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.

I still have the drive. I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.