All work is service. If you aren't serving in your work, you really aren't working.

Without pain, how would we know what true joy feels like?

Don't leave the classroom of pain without gathering wisdom from its instruction.

How one responds in these dire circumstances says a lot about one's faith and the strength of one's beliefs.

Being an example to others is a requirement of following Jesus, even though none of us will ever be a perfect example.

We all are striving for something every minute of the day, whether we realize it or not.

We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away.

Humility is a peace that accepts one's strengths and limitations.

...life is a continual process of learning, working hard, rising up, and then being humbled. Sliding over, then sliding over again. And again.

A humble person is comfortable in their own skin.

...a disciplined pursuit of less will keep us focused and make the greatest impact.

The more we read, the more we learn.

It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.

And all of the big shots of the car industry are there, strutting their stuff. And that year, they're feeling especially good because cars were selling more than ever before.

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.

Christ, what an imagination I've got!

Your mom is my sunset, and you are my dawn.

Some people take pictures, I write songs.

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.

As long as I don't break the camera, I'll be fine.