Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?

We’ll never abandon ourselves to the Spirit as long as we think we can change without Him.

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood When fond recollection presents them to view.

Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.

If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?

Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth