Suicide is just stoping you and everyone around you from getting better.

Believe in what you want to believe in and don't let other people change that.

The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.

Optimism is a competitive advantage.

The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.

I prefer just being with people I like. That's my way of celebrating.

Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.