Remember if God had wanted this to be perfect he never would have had me up here.

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.

The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.

The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.

Indifference is the strongest contempt.

When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

Getting to communicate with many people through our shows was just great in itself and I felt a lot of energy. I think I learned what love is through our concert.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.

I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.