To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.

The world is a living image of God.

The world is a den of crazies.

I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.

You don't have to be a billionaire to believe you can make a difference. Give your resources to a charity and volunteer in your community.

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.

Our handicaps exist only in our minds.

Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.

Everyone in my family is taken care of. And I enjoy this.

The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope.

We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.