HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!

The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.

The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

Healing comes when we move away from the darkness and walk towards the light.

What had, moments ago, appeared a dangerous gambit, now seemed an elegant coup de maître.

Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?

The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.

You want a bit of life before it's all over. It takes all the guilt away.

How come New York gets all the cool plane crashes?

If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.