Is the goal I’ve set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

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.

Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small minds find the problems and criticize.

Your skill, strength, and overall survival are offensive to some people. Those are definitely not your people.

Mankind have angels and devils, this thing is called balance!

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.

If a car came through a window anywhere near me, I'd be freaking out for three days!

If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

Every great team that I've been on, the offensive linemen was the bell cows of the whole team.