“Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.”

“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”

“The best thing you can do is get very good at being you.”

“About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.”

“you can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”

“God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...”

“God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been”