The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Rest, refreshed and revived your soul.

The habit of mobility had become ingrained.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.

I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.

I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.

What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be!