What we do while we wait may be more important than what we are waiting for.

Without pain, how would we know what true joy feels like?

Don't leave the classroom of pain without gathering wisdom from its instruction.

How one responds in these dire circumstances says a lot about one's faith and the strength of one's beliefs.

Being an example to others is a requirement of following Jesus, even though none of us will ever be a perfect example.

We all are striving for something every minute of the day, whether we realize it or not.

We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away.

Humility is a peace that accepts one's strengths and limitations.

...life is a continual process of learning, working hard, rising up, and then being humbled. Sliding over, then sliding over again. And again.

A humble person is comfortable in their own skin.

...a disciplined pursuit of less will keep us focused and make the greatest impact.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

I'm very proud of myself because I have come so close to just giving up and I haven't done that.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

Movies are different from real life.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink.

Love doesn't exactly come with an off switch.

I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!