Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you’re doing right back at you.

Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth.

You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you.

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake.

Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery.

Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how.

Ultimately, wasn’t dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming.

Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all?

The way to peace is not love, but Christ.

One of the hardest-to-swallow, most countercultural, counter intuitive implications of the gospel is that bearing up under a difficult burden with patient perseverance is a good thing.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

So we can see we must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.

Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?