Poetry is the Devil's wine.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.

I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

I don't think Mike Tyson's a bad guy. I think the people, the media, makes him out to be a bad guy.

What's possible today isn't bound by what was possible yesterday, and is never a measure of what's possible tomorrow.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.