My faith is certainly not as stable or constant as I’d like it to be. I’m a highly emotional person and sometimes allow my emotions to affect how I feel about God or how I trust him.

God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early...but he's also never late, either.

Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.

I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that's why I experienced the occasional guilt with my habits.

Happiness is a conscious choice we make for ourselves. It has to come from within.

Humans are pretty complicated, ” I said. “No, Boy. Rain-forest ecosystems are complicated. Humans are just a mess.

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.

Michelle Obama - they don't call her Mooch-elle for nothing.

California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils.

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things.