There must always be a secret to be unwrapped at Christmas—that’s the rule

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

The bigoted, the narrow minded, the stubborn, and the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning.

One things guys have to remember is consistency... You can't make up for three years of eating poorly in just one workout.

As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football.

We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page. Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

I'm forever a former president and I understand that, but at this point in my post-presidency, I don't want to be involved with politics.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

Probably Darren Criss, yeah, we've become close friends.

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.