I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.

... the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney.

Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world

The abundance Jesus offers is a spiritual abundance that transcends circumstances, like income, health, living conditions, and even death. The abundant life is eternal.

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Hard as things seem today, they will be better in the next day if you choose to serve the Lord this day with your whole heart.

The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that.

The world should be full of love. Love. Love is the most important thing in the world.

Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living but existing

Successful people follow successful patterns.

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.