The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

Today is a good day to tackle a fear and make yourself proud.

I went looking for trouble, and I found it.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.

The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.

Stuttering and trying to find your thoughts, the imperfections make the performances better.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

Prayer is mans greatest power!