I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Right is what benefits a nation, even if it is against the will of the people.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

To be successful you can't show up to the potluck with just a fork.

Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.

She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the life of the party.

Dying's a boring side effect.

If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.

You don't need a team leader, you need quality.