In my experience, people who don't stick around during the hard times weren't worth having around anyway.

A very smart woman once told me that anger can feel like a life buoy, like it's the only thing keeping you afloat, but that in order to heal you have to let go.

That's what makes a tragedy a tragedy. There's no rhyme or reason to it, only heartbreak. The only thing you can do when the ground stops shaking and the waters recede is try to save whoever's left.

You ought to search the Scriptures yourself, to discover the glorious gospel.

As if each of us might somehow have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.

You can tuck your head under your wing for a while...and wait out this storm. But you will fly again.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky!

Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

To be in the right is often an expensive business.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

What is music for? It's to make you feel good.