Whatever I ‘align’’ myself with are the very things that will create a ‘line’ into my future.

No, I am not powerful nor do I wish to be, for it is God using my weakness that makes me potent and I would never wish to surrender that.

Maybe I need to immerse the fabric of my soul in torrential nature of Christmas, and in doing so to finally understand that it is the very thing that can make the world what I so wish it were.

The art of living is to rise above lesser things so that we can truly enjoy great things. And the message of Christmas is the greatest of all things.

Doing life without God is not doing life.

If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?

The present is too often squandered grieving the past or fearing the future, which makes the present nothing more than a cheap facsimile of what was or what will be instead of what it could be.

At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.

To keep my life free of evil I must of necessity keep my life full of God, for keeping my life full of anything else will give evil everything else.

To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.

I am most thankful for what I don’t have, for had my life’s wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God’s treasures.

Vision is not fiction

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.