“When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we’re going to make it through and be a part of God’s marvelous plan for His child.”

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

As you’re rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people’s eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!

Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today

True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.

We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need — the umbrella of God’s love.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

Change is a process not an event.

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.

Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

We always go out looking for live music after our shows.

If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

I sleep nine hours every night, I have a little nap after lunch, and, if I’m going out for dinner, I sneak in an extra one before I head out.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.