Do you have things in your past you're not proud of? Things that make you feel ashamed?''That's what makes Christ's death on the cross so personal.

God’s not in the business of pampering His children. He’s in the business of perfecting them.

Optimism is like a firefly. A bright blaze of hope, unable to be captured.

Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear … than a fact that he wishes was an opinion.

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

You must realize you are not the doer, that you are not the action.

The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.

The purest white seems stained.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

Now I've got the world swingin' from my nuts And damn it feels good to be a gangsta!