I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Easter is never deserved.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these mortals be.

The first step to that kingdom of God within is to find peace within even among chaos.

I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm ready to rock out on stage.

Privacy I think gets invaded when you start being honest.

My family is everything to me.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.