...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

Ask yourself this question: 'Will this matter a year from now?

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

Violence doesn't equal strength.

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

There is no excuse not to give two minutes today to intend your tomorrow.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.