Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

Solitude is separate experience.

So my hope and prayer is that people will be impacted by the realization that miracles are everywhere and that God uses them to communicate to us that we're not alone, and that we do have help.

since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?