When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.

Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.

Iggy. This is not a democracy, " I said, (...)"It'sa Maxocracy.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.