In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

A writer illuminates the lights of her heart so that everyone can see themselves in the mirror of her thoughts.

But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.

I don't have the best dating track record.

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.