Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will ­ adjust your lives, not the standards.


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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle bet...
TED DEKKER
My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantas...
TED DEKKER
For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking ...
TED DEKKER
Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality...
TED DEKKER
Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high ...
TED DEKKER
While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving bey...
TED DEKKER
The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, a...
TED DEKKER
My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been ...
TED DEKKER
If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and i...
TED DEKKER
It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that da...
TED DEKKER
Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What...
TED DEKKER
Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
TED DANSON
Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunit...
TED DANSON
We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick...
TED DANSON
We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evol...
TED DANSON
If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take anot...
TED DANSON
When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
TED DANSON
'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final a...
TED DANSON
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbli...
TED DANSON
I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming beca...
TED DANSON
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are ve...
TED DANSON
Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly i...
TED DANSON
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole respons...
TED DANSON
We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oi...
TED DANSON
Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone them...
TED DANSON
The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends up...
TED DANSON
You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.
TED DANSON
Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding...
TED DANSON
The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it...
TED DANSON
Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but...
TED DANSON
I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to ...
TED CRUZ
When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meani...
TED CRUZ
The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
TED CRUZ
We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to recl...
TED CRUZ
I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.
TED CRUZ
This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more a...
TED CRUZ
I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the script...
TED CRUZ
I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because y...
TED CRUZ