Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.

Have interesting failures.... If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve.... Don't pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God's sake.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.