I don't think anybody ever really knows what's going to happen, " he said. "We're all just out here hoping for the best.

What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered when other people pointed them out? I was almost envious.

Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.

For you, I wish for second chances

You stop believing in wishes when the only one you want to make can never come true.

God used my year of waiting not to frustrate me, or abandon me, but to draw me into a closer relationship with Him.

As Christians, we have only one authority, one compass: the Word of God.

True love is an act of the will—a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.

A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called.

Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Better to use force when you should rather than when you must.

Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.

Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.