The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

Are you willing to stay right where you are and let the Lord do great things through you, though no one may seem to notice at all?

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up.

This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!

I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.

I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

I was a big sports fan, and I had been closely monitoring Hank Aaron's home run totals since I was a kid playing on the sandlot adjacent to the Foundry and Machine Company in Batavia, Illinois.

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.

People have a copyright on their own life.

I'd like to believe there are people who are good, I know there are good Christians and good people from every faith who just want what's best for humanity.

I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity.

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing.

The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.