"It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime."

"On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine."

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

"There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1."

"The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be."

"Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave."

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania."

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."

"Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life."

"If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God."

"The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community."

"We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all."

"We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship."

"The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away."

"As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way."

"Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair."

"Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?"

"We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true."

"The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures."

"I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life."

"I'm competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that's not always a good thing. It can make life complicated."

"I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do."

"I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement."

"The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life."