“Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal.”

“Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves.”

“Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste.”

“Her heart was revealed in a slip, as our hearts always are.”

“[W]hen you make your mistakes in public you will learn that they are mistakes and in being corrected you will grow. It also reminded me that being wrong and responding to correction with resilience...”

“There is no such thing as an independent Christian.”

“The devil's happy when the critics run you off.”

“Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.”

“I would say that Op 31 had brought music just to the very edge I just simply drew back and said, beyond that lies complete chaos.”

“He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.”

“The power we were given to think, is to enable us to live better lives, not fool more people.”

“Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”