Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

David Allan Coe

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

Bell Hooks

I like movies I can relate to.

Kim Cattrall

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Alexander Pope

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.

Giada De Laurentiis

The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.

James Richardson

Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.

John Krasinski

I cast unusual people in my movies.

Albert Brooks

You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

Olympia Dukakis

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

George Orwell