"I would say that I probably had an unhealthy love affair with drinking. I grew up as this kind of insecure kid, you know, kind of making my way. And drinking took all of that away."

“You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 11, 2014

“The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.”

“Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive.”

Source : Ruth Bell Graham (2008). “Prodigals and Those Who Love Them: Words of Encouragement for Those Who Wait”, p.137, Baker Books

“The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.”

“We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.”

“Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.”

Source : Quoted in S Hinz Caspar David Friedrich in Briefen und Bekenntnissen (1968).

“I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.”

“When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious.”