Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, 'Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.'

I'd grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn't know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I didn't know him. And there's a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith in which I opened my heart to him and let him rule my life.

We in America should be grateful to God for the blessing he has given us.

Embracing conflict can be a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and the re-engergizing of ourselves and others. Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.