The aim and the result of faithful, fruitful, and fulfilling service is to make God famous.

Love does not pay attention to timetables or knock when it is convenient for you. True love shows up unexpectedly, bags fully packed, daring you to offer it a place to stay.

Our need for instant gratification is the reason we’re drawn to liars and hot air blowers.

I'm half way to Heaven and half way to Hell with each breath I take in this mortal shell.

Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down-the noise and the racing of my thoughts.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.

Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain - just from going back through things. It's almost as if I had the experience and then the meta-experience.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.