Necessity is the author of change.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human

It's not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts.

Our theology must become biography.

There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

Learning patience takes a lot of patience!

It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.

I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

Only with the wings of lovecan you fly.Only with the light of lovecan you see the starIn a moonlit sky.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.

If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.

Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he's not doing good in Afghanistan either.

The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.

Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Stay true to yourself because at the end of the day you can't lie to yourself.

Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.