"Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight."

“The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.”

“You could live it up and be successful, but it wouldn't mean anything without love and friends. I could go broke and still be happy because love is all I need.”

“This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.”

“One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use of the term "Father." Over 70 times in the New Testament alone, God is described as "Father" to His children. No major world religion describes the relationship between its creator and its adherents in terms of a father.”

Source : Ed Hindson, Ergun Caner (2008). “The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics: Surveying the Evidence for the Truth of Christianity”, p.254, Harvest House Publishers

“After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%.”

“No one really can have any idea if it's luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart choices that grant you a good life, a happy one. All we can do is decide to own our choices no matter what, to honor them and ourselves as best we can. That whatever is within our control (and there is plenty that is not) is ours. Mine. Responsibility. Conviction.”

“There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.”

“The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.”