Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.

Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering.

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared.

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

Luck is not real, it a simple word .

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.

Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

I absolutely love Italian food. So pizza - like a margherita pizza, penne arbiota, a glass of wine. That's like my dream.

On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

When I hear Governor Mitt Romney in his speech talk about how the Republican Party must stand for legitimate conservative values. They don't.

There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

I am international. When I put out my second mixtape, we did four tours and a tour overseas.