It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'
But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.
Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.
The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.
Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?
One's palate is reborn every morning!
In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more scholarly works, namely, that the Reformed tradition is broader and more variegated than is often reported today, and that we need to recapture something of this in order that we don't end up unnecessarily narrow in our doctrine and in order to keep some perspective.
I used to have horrible cars that would always end up broken down on the highway. When I tried to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But if I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself - people like to see that.
I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.
I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.