When you start talking about same-sex marriage, you start talking about abortion, and I think those issues are very very important and very interesting and very right for us to talk about, but when we allow those issues to cannibalize all other issues we find ourselves homeless while we debate about it.

I don't care how cheap the box is that you put a diamond ring in, nothing about the box diminishes the value of the content.

You can wreck your future running from your past.

The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair.