Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.

Love happens when people forgive.

Perfect love drives out fear

The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right guy, you'll know, because he'll cherish you.

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

Christmas is a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass our own.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

The truth was this: Love is a decision.

She headed for a wide flat rock on the creek's bank, her posture still demanding 'no trespassing' but no longer 'trespassers will be shot.

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then?

We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.

We finally need to pass a prohibition on anyone who's on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in America. If you're too dangerous to fly, you are too dangerous to buy a gun.

I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a brute who rules simply because he is the strongest.

Don’t be sad by what you see It’s true life has it’s miseries But one thing’s always worked for me Worry ends when faith begins.