I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.

Seeing the way that God has been faithful to work what appears to be a tragedy for our good and His glory has been the greatest source of joy and comfort. The gift of a son is pretty amazing as well.

Serve your neighbors (like your next-door neighbors). It's a good way to get to know them better and show them what Jesus is about.

You are mine for a moment, but you are His, forever His.

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.

As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.

I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much.

It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square.

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.