What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.

I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

Err in the direction of kindness.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

I'm a vegan. I respect the environment, and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue.

As I make goals for this year... Jesus, let your thoughts become my thoughts and bend my will to Your will.

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind.

If you don't need God to pull off what you are planning, you are not dreaming big enough.

I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.