The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.

Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others

If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.

I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.

What difference makes what you believe? What happens will happen anyway, exactly the same, no matter what you believe. What you do makes the important part. What you do.

...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and death - we might discover something unexpected there.

With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove.

Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." Samuel Johnson

Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.

Our love is God, let's go get a Slushie.

You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.

Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

With hard work, living a good life, you can do anything. You will be rewarded for that.

Knowledge isn’t love

One person can't hold anything, but two can have the world.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.