Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

Great understanding is broad and unhurried

Doing things God’s way is always a matter of the heart.

Build relationships and friendships by finding common experiences or interests instead of getting discouraged by noticeable differences.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

I love that my career has been documented and I can look back one day and share it with my kids.

Any gathering of people requires leadership to cohere, to achieve its potential contribution. What is not needed is a "boss" of yore, directing everyone else's efforts toward "the one best way."

You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but ... can't control the world.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.