For the first time, I understand that, as much as one might desire change, one has to be willing to take a risk, to free-fall, to fail, and that you've got to let go of the past.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.

People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.

It's my policy not to review funerals.

I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Art can contradict Science.

This day of your life will never come again.

I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules,including: Both of your socks should always be the same color, Or they should at least both be fairly dark.

I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out tomorrow and committed one act of rebellion.

The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.