Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

I've heard this attributed to Calvin Coolidge. "Behold the turtle. He never gets anywhere unless he sticks his neck out.

pretending to be good might be the same with pretending to be right, its just you are selfish on your own because you think only for yourself..

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Things are going to happen whether you are there or not, you still need someone to push the button on the camera and get it and know it's going to work of the story.

Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.