George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.

God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.

When you die, you graduate. I don't worry about death. Sickness teaches there is joy in everything. Take joy in your sickness because a lot of times God is telling you: 'You may not know it, but you're more blessed than you realized.'

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.