Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.

God laughs at men's plans.

Without fail, the days that I start off the right way with a little devotional time and putting God first. Those days are really good days.

I want to make a difference.

Nashville will never be the same.

I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.

I'm going to try to take a loving look at the situation and do what God gave me the ability to do, and He'll bless it.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

I became a Christian when I was a little six-year-old boy.

I decided that I'm not going to pound my fist anymore at those folks and at laws that I can't change.

I've been successful, and I'm grateful for that.

No, the sadness will soften, its edges will become less rough. In time missing him will be the way you love him.

i have to love myself more than i love him, in order to leave him.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.

I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

Don't put eggs under dead chickens.

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.