Learning patience takes a lot of patience!

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human

It's not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts.

Our theology must become biography.

There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.

I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

All of our theology must eventually become biography.

It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won't allow even the legitimate exercise of authority by the professionals it has hired.

I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.

What I liked so much while shooting [a movie], I might not like anymore when I see it or vice versa. The two are connected but not on a causal level.

Forest have now lost six matches without winning.

I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love

Like mold on books, grow myths on history.

I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.