Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant.

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

We are so much more powerful and important than we realize. In each moment that we connect with another, we have the opportunity to etch a memory into their heart.

Our focus must be on what we need to change about ourselves-our attitudes, our words, our actions-even if our circumstances and the other people in our lives remain the same.

Untested faith was rarely strong. Deep, abiding faith was tempered through fire.

At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, enters my life that isn't caused or allowed by God and filtered first through His loving hands for the purpose of making me more like Jesus.

And remember, following Christ is a lifelong journey. Christians are foot soldiers, so to speak. Always learning. Always growing stronger.

The poorest man around is not the fellow without a bank coin to his name, but the soul without the right information to orchestrate for himself the right future.

We’re novel worthy, day walking, blood sucking, tortured souls trapped in a body that can’t die for all eternity with no feelings, no emotions and no heart. - Elaine White, Runaway Girl

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

My mom was proud but very hands off. She didn't really know enough about the model industry, and she didn't have the time to stop her life to go chaperone me. I think she trusted me.

Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.

Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them

I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.

Sometimes you win by losing.

I've dabbled in several different religions.