Things may not be logical or fair, but when God is directing the events of our lives, they are right.

Whether our fear is absolutely realistic or out of proportion in our minds, our greatest refuge is Jesus Christ.

Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life.

Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured.

My favorite thing that God gives is grace. It is without performance, free in Christ.

Whether you win or lose, whether you have a good day or bad day, God is with you; He loves you.

Adventure is an attitude, not a behavior.

To fully enjoy life, to derive its greatest meaning and beauty, one needs to enter into it with not only the look of involvement and happiness, but the spirit of involvement as well.

We're waiting for a ship to come in that never went out.

Don't just be interested, be interesting.

Lord, to the degree I don't want to do this, bless me.

When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.

Theres some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.