I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

So many love affairs doesn't survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other.

[Rylie:] I was thinking about that short you directed--The Pier. I wondered if you had a video or a reel of it somewhere. [Finn:] You want to see my short. Why?[Rylie:] Color me curious.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

There would be no accumulation of strength inside if the choices that you make did not require disipline and intention.

The reason you get married is to be together, not to be separated.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings.