Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you.

This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

...Trying is not the same as being. Trying flies in a circle around the moment and *being* is inside of it.

Sometimes geniuses create nothing new, they organize already existing material into something completely useful in other ways

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians.

I am a creature of the sun. I don't ever mind being in the heat.

If God is your solid foundation, good or bad, you're going to be happy, you're going to be joyous if you're in him. And that's what we stand on.

In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

He who takes whatever God sends with smile has learned lifes hardest lesson.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.