Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.

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.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different.

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

Over time you realize that some people just aren't worth it anymore.

I think everybody's book is about somebody's daughter, in a lot of ways. I dig that.

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food.

There always exists an absolute norm to be preserved

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.