I was chosen to speak due to my warm personality. . . . Look up warm and it means "not so hot."

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

Jealousy is a scary thing.

Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.

[...]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.

Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

You're always homesick.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.