The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

Every pain is a lesson.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.

To every difficulty, God’s grace abounds.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

In 1986, when they made the TV movie, Return to Mayberry, Barney and Thelma Lou did get married!

No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.

I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot to bring to a desert island, it would definitely be Eliot.

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

Eating a cookie never feels strange. I am a big believer in food in general.

What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

I can't imagine loving somebody more than I love Wyatt [my son]. I can't. I just don't know how that's possible.

One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.