I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half.

God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything.

We don't help people by showing them our trophies. We help them by showing them our scars.

When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!

Life is a series of recoveries.

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

The things you're crying about today, you might be laughing about in ten years ... and then again ... maybe not.

It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.

How about you hate your sin, and I'll hate my sin and we'll just love each other!

I hate puns. And, I'm tired of pardoning them.

Our preachers weren't always right, but they were never in doubt.

Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.

I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.