A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.

Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

Replace dabbling with laser-beamfocus on something important.

Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.

If I could know me I could know the universe.

To me, little Mike Wazowski is one of the best characters I ever got to play because he was funny. He was outrageous. He got angry. He was romantic. He was a full, well-rounded character.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence .

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.