I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

If you don't like potlucks, the solution to your problem is "don't go to potlucks," not "insist other people don't have them."

Reconciliation is not possible when one party asks the other to obliterate all signs of their relationship.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.

It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.

Enlightenment is light.

One grey hair appeared on my headI plucked it out with my hand.It answered me: "You have prevailed against me alone -What will you do when my army comes after me?

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.