The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

One can have a wit, but not a witless

Life before Death.Strength before Weakness.Journey before Destination.

If someone has wronged you, tell this to yourself: “I did not deserve God’s forgiveness, but He forgave me through Christ. So I forgive this person also.

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

Being faithful doesn’t mean you are fearless. It just means that your faith is greater than your fear.

Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.

[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

The price of freedom is to allow freedom. Very few people are willing to pay the price.

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?