More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. They truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His.

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

A happy heart is the beauty of being.

The needs of the times will teach you what to do.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

Your views are now my own.

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today.

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

Yes. I killed him. And buried her in flowers," I say. "And I sang her to sleep.

Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.