Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.
Ideals are like the stars - you can't touch them with your hands, but by following them you reach your destination.
Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.
Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.
Often we live side by side but do not communicate heart to heart.
When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.
In the temple we can find peace. The blessings of the temple are priceless.
There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are
I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.