When you have got the greatest mountain of hardship that you’ve ever faced to deal with, you also have the greatest opportunity to act on a stronger faith than you’ve ever acted on before.

When a man is at his weakest is where he will find the greatest opportunity to become his strongest.

Only Jesus can take care of the past. But we can help Him with the present.

In innocence everything has its truest meaning.

It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet.

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.

I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

I will always prefer a hardback book, but I'm drawn to digital because it's so easy to acquire them when I'm having a need-to-read moment.

I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.

I love the pursuit of songwriting, and I've seen what songs can do in people's lives. Some of the stories that come back from songs flying around the globe are so encouraging.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.

In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.