Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

I'm just dying to return to the Octagon and do the thing I most love in my life. That's what I want right now.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew.

People like me took Donald Trump literally, but never seriously. But his supporters took him seriously and not literally.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Libraries help you to dream!

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed.

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

Agreeing on the "why" takes all the romance out of everything, takes all the seduction. Seduction used to be an art. Now of course it's brutish and it's predatory and it's bad.