Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.

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.

Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

There are no twin souls in God's universe.

The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me. -Streetwalking with Jesus

I think with each record, I don't know ... they're like burdens.

People who live in glasshouses might as well answer the door

If I think, I am lost.