When we are stuck in a rut we are being invited to grow and expand.

Similar to a butterfly, I've gone through a metamorphosis, been released from my dark cocoon, embraced my wings, and soared!

Our faith is built in the dark, in the valleys, and during the back-breaking battles in life.

The beauty of adversity is that when we hit bottom, the only way to go is up.

Sometimes we have to reach rock bottom before we're willing to rise up and overcome our trials.

We are all characters in the book of life.

If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.

Infatuation means, 'A love that it is inconvenient to go on with.

I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.

He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.

I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.

I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'