Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

I shouldn't tell jokes about my wife. she's attached to a machine that keeps her alive... The refrigerator.

He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.

We have to continue to grow within and outwardly. We have to keep going.

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.