The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.

When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for fellowship. God created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence, and we break the law of our being at our peril.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.