Sometimes the biggest enemy you have is down deep in your own soul.

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

It's a wonderful thing to have a companion like that who just wants to sit by you while you work.

It's funny how aimless a person can feel at times, even when they know God is in control.

Somtimes when you know the right thing to do, you simply have to do it, even though it breaks your heart.

God has a way of working on His own timetable. And it usually is a lot different from ours.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

To many, God is not someone you know but something you try to get off your back.

Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it.

The woman of my dreams. The woman of my nightmares. Everything good and bad about my life. The “I do” that “I didn’t.

Life is about making good choices, Matt. One after the other. They pile up day after day. It's only when you look back that you can see what the choices led to. What you're able to stand on.

Destroy all the barrier inside you and accept everyone with love. We are in each other all along. Be nonjudgmental but be loving.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.

Work is a four-letter word.

Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can’t really multitask reading a book.

She's intense and passionate, so she's perfect.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.