One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea.

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.

As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

If your dreams and goals get derailed, they're not dead. Derailed simply means off-track. Pick 'em up and put 'em back on again.

There is always a shade of pink for every color because Pink matches everything

I read therefore I write.

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.