Mother lode of learning.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Jude taught me what love was: to be willing to hold on to another person's pain. That's it.

Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting.

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.

I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That - and no sleep!

As long as we keep winning, I'm happy.

There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends.

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.