It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding.It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.

I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.

If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.

I think all families are creepy in a way.

I am living proof that money cannot buy friendship.

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.