I've changed a lot but I'm still Smitty. Hopefully I'm more mature and I'm a little wiser, and I plan on by the grace of God finishing well, and I'm more passionate than I ever have been in my life.

Love isn't love until you give it away.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in.

Friends are friends forever, if the Lord's the Lord of them.

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet

Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that's waiting.

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

There's a beauty on the inside of you - and it shows on the outside too.

Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

Nothing succeeds like one's own successor.

What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

I'm pretty simple, I don't use a hairbrush or a certain kind of hair product.

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.

In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.