"Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates."

“Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.”

“The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.”

“The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.”

Source : "Calling & Character: Virtues of the Ordained Life". Book by William H. Willimon, September 1, 2010.

“Chaz looks me dead in the eye and says, 'Why yes, Lizzie. I’m manically depressed because the girl I’ve finally realized I’ve always been in love with, and who I was beginning to think just might love me back, turned around and got herself engaged to my best friend, who, frankly, doesn’t deserve her. Does that answer your question?”

“Anxiety is the experience of growth itself. In any endeavor, how do you feel when you go from one stage to the next? The answer: You feel anxious. Anxiety that is denied makes us ill; anxiety that is fully confronted and fully lived through converts itself into joy, security, strength, centeredness, and character. The practical formula: Go where the pain is.”

“My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.”

“You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.”

“Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.”