The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.

Energy does not judge, it merely creates.

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.'

It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.

You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.