I'm Sinatra, I'm Frank Sinatra in disguise.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

I'll be around my whole life. That's a long time to me.

I think you can learn from history.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

There are no unlockable doors.

Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb "to eat"-in both the active and passive forms.

I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.