Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.

Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto.

Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

Even if you fall on the runway, I wouldn't blame you. It would mean that we made a mistake in choosing you.

Fine. You don’t want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.

…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.

There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if I hear that you did karate for the six months leading up to it.

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

I hadn't fallen through his arms. He was ripped from mine.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.

Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery's dead?

The priority of leadership is what the lobbyists and giant corporations and special interests in Washington want. It's why we're bankrupting our kids and grandkids.