All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.

Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

You can make fun of your own a lot easier than someone else's.

No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.

After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.

Freedom, my friend, can only be found in His grace.

Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.

Knowledge is constructed, not transferred

Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.