There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.

Know yourself, like yourself, be yourself.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.

We as a church need to decide whether we'll seek the Anointing of God or the God of the Anointing

I write poems to find out why I write them