There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.

It's better to make a difference than to make a point.

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.

Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

We are condemned to be free people, liberated people who must make life-defining decisions. Freedom requires choices and all choices entail value decisions.

When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.

God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.

Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.

The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're ruled by big talking turds, it doesn't mean that we are. So you shouldn't feel depressed.

Jolt is for Windows programmers. It's typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh programmers: it goes in yellow and comes out yellow. It's WYSIWYP.

If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.