We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

The Lord has heard your cries. He will help you.

A set and concrete term of attaining a plan mobilizes a man to fulfill it.

Learn what you are and be such.

I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do.

God never uses a person greatly until He has wounded him deeply. The privilege He offers you is greater than the price you have to pay. The privilege is greater than the price.

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.

When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.