Love is something worth suffering for...

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.

If God has given us life, He is capable of any other thing.

Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.

It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it.

When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way.

It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.

There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.