Change is the one thing we can be sure of.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture any more.

Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies, or all the interesting books we read or the wise things we say and think. Love has a transformational power.

Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later.

I always had, you know, in the book of Hebrews, I think it's chapter 11, verse 1, where it says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." I always had this sense that there was something on the other side. That there was something better.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone.

I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.