The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

God speaks repeatedly and in many different ways

Dreams alone with no acts toward achieving them are useless: no dreams at all is a condition of the pathetic.

The emptiness that fills in when once-the-beloved says, "Who are you?

Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour.

I've been a huge fan of the cable network FX for a very, very long time. I think their brand of comedy is incredible. For me, as an audience member, that's a go-to channel.

I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.

My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.