Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want call us and we'll show you how to live without it."

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way.

Was I a secret not worth sharingOrWas I a fact not worth telling?

Small as a pea. Wider than the sea. This is where you and I came to be.

Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.

When you consider the overpopulation in this world ... homosexuality is completely underrated in this society.

Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.

They [men and women] have both been, and men especially, have been told that how they naturally are is bad.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.