The world's shortest sermon: "When in doubt... don't!"

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

It is only because we seek love as if it lives outside of us that we miss it, again and again.

The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.

I think we need to embrace feminism, we need to embrace all of the gifts women bring to the workplace.

I always thought I was commercial. I always thought I was writing hit singles. These days, whatever's on the radio is considered commercial. People like what's on the radio, whatever it is.