On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, oh you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death!

What a curious power words have.

The pace of a leader determines the pace of his follower.

Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

Love doesn't suit the lazy; sometimes it requires strong, precise actions.