God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love.

If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God.

God is to me that creative Force behind and in the universe who manifests Himself as energy as life as order as beauty as thought as conscience as love.

Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

Challenges are lessons to be learned, then overcome.

The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs light in the scale against certain pleasure.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Luxury is something that makes you feel beautiful. I have a vintage silk kimono that definitely makes me feel beautiful and luxurious.

People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.