It is possible to be happy without having perfect health . . . Thank goodness my happiness doesn't come from my joints, but from my heart.

When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction.

When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.

Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.

If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn't true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?

Homosexuals want their depraved 'values' to become our children's values. Homosexuals expect society to embrace their immoral way of life. Worse yet, they are looking for new recruits!

I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for everything

Politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.

A pause came between them, and it was so full of Akiva that Karou imagined she could smell him.

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.

That’s the thing about change. It can be gradual. Slow and almost unnoticeable. Or it can be sudden, and you don’t even know how you could’ve been any other way.

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?