Keep your maximum focus on the present and a little planning ahead because without the present there is no future

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Literature is news that stays news.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Man confesses God forgives

Behind every successful man, there isn't just a woman but a prayerful and hard working woman.If not every married man would be successful

The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83

A broken heart is not a broken glass

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth

Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.

I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.

Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.

It's just seems life without music would be death.