Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.

Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all.

Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.

Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

The music and the message, to me, is something that is imperative and that's what drives me know.

If it's something that I just can't get anywhere with, even if I think this could be a hit, I just drop it and it doesn't get developed.