Be so positive and optimistic that people give up trying to contain you.

Ordinary faithfulness leads to extraordinary impact.

The quickest way to forget about your pain is to help someone who hurts more.

Never let a few people that don't get you, shape you, into their limited knowledge of what you can become.

Sometimes your dream has to die so God's dream can come alive in you.

Never grow weary in the fight to rescue the most forgotten.

The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.

Stay optimistic to the point where people question your sanity.

You can tell a lot about a person by what they let roll off their back.

Wanting to quit is a sign of success because it means you have something to quit; but don't quit.

Be content with what thou hast received and smooth thy frowning forehead.

Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.

I want to leave my country without leaving my home.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.