Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.

A friend in deed is a friend indeed.

Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me.

Grace is the understanding that God is a better savior than you are a sinner.

I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks and play them as best as I can as a part rather than ad libbing.

Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.