The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

Dead yet?" Gus answered.I smirked. "Not yet, but the night's still young.""Here's hoping.

I wonder if I could take back every 'I love you' ever said to you, would I do it?

People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child.

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions.

I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.