The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!

so you want something complex and contradictory? I could stay here talking to you all day about how the world works when in reality I dont need too.

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

If you don't trust yourself, you won't trust others. You make a choice and see where it goes.

Indefinite plans get dubious results.

I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.

The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you.

A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here.