We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Under every layer of pain, another layer of recovery lies in wait, the sweet, forever surprising truth of endurance.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

Soccer isn't brain surgery, have fun.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.