Get low; grace will meet you there.

Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

God wants us to pray that we might have the courage to live before him in ways that are not natural to us.

Worm theology is too high for me.

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

Leaders should be the chief repenters.

Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

May your glass always be full, may there always be a roof over your head, and may you dirty sinners be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.

Nothing else in the whole wide world matters as much as avenging your sister.

Today's progress, was once yesterday's discussion. Speak aloud, see it through, and most importantly believe!

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

I'm so secure in myself I couldn't care less what people think of me.

I woke up and one of us was crying.

We are young, but We already know that in life's great game those who are most unhappy are those who haven't taken the risk to be happy. And I don't want to be one of those

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.

As a child, I actually wanted to be a lawyer. That was the goal. I didn't plan to be an author, and then even less, did I plan to produce movies. It all just happened.

If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.