I don’t know that love is freedom. Rather, I think it’s more a force to preserve freedom.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

To question is to grow.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

I need a guy who's confident and is secure in himself, because we're always apart.

When God's in it, the job gets done.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.