Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

An opportunist ventures nothing, believes in nothing and invests in nothing, therefore he ends with nothing.

In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

Some people even think I wear a wig. Do they think I went into a salon one day and said, Can you please screw this up really bad?

I think a lot of ex-addicts. They find a lot of humor in what they did because they lived through it.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

Irritation for some men was their response to strain.

Leave your fears; you will then have a better life!

You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.