Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of Christian values has gone in America.

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs, being insidiously eroded.

Christianity is the only major religion to have at its central event the humiliation of its God.

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

The eyes of others my our prisons

The short-lived crash and burn of an eternal optimist is far more deeply felt than the day-to-day misery of an eternal pessimist.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.

Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.

Nobody likes being criticised, particularly by players who will be in Disneyland this summer on their holidays rather than the World Cup in Japan

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that's kinda how I approach everything.