Run after God. Be who you're created to be, and you'll run into the people who are doing the same thing, and those are the people that you'll want to be with.

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

Now mine eyes see the heart that once we did search for, and I fear this heart shall be mended, nevermore.

Eli: People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now.

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.