I hope you will excuse my being late. The person in this organization who gave me directions here has obviously heard me speak before.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

My faith is certainly not as stable or constant as I’d like it to be. I’m a highly emotional person and sometimes allow my emotions to affect how I feel about God or how I trust him.

I am allergic to cats, the cat in 'Don't Stop' was actually a very small fury human.

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.

California is, in many respects, best understood as a nation-state. In the environmental-energy realm, California possesses far-reaching legal authorities that other states do not.

People are like nations-if you help them a lot, they hate you.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.