Power is a delicate thing. The most powerful storms on earth intensify rapidly, but dissipate just as fast if not faster.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.

You think I look like a teletubby?

One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution.

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.