Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.

Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.

When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

Be bold, but be fair. Don't give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail

Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.