Putin is somebody who really respects strength.

I think Russia must have been very embarrassed by Syria's use of chemical weapons because it really undercut Putin's role back in 2013 in saying he had helped get rid of Syria's weapons.

We have to be concerned that Russia is also increasing its military influence in Egypt, potentially in Libya, also in Afghanistan.

It is clear that there would nothing a U.N. Security Council resolution that condemned Syria because Syria is Russia's ally, and Russia has a veto in the U.N. Security Council.

I don't think that we're necessarily going to see the U.S. and Russia becoming out and out military competitors against each other.

Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.

Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.

Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly the man says, 'This is the only area where I let down.' Not true. Every let down affects the rest. Not to think so is naive.

I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.

I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

Since I have that edgy, rocker-tomboy kind of vibe, it can be very difficult to translate my style for the red carpet.

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!