People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.

Nobody is really an expert, as we are all still learning.

Abandoning civil society will leave the enemy in control, not by victory but by default.

no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.

I love the scrapbooks, I have a shelf of scrapbooks fans give me - they're so sweet, so detailed!