Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

Explore the extent of love.

Endings and beginnings look just the same.

I hope more people decide to become organ donors.

But you built me dreams instead.

Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations that we Western collaborators then refine with him.

Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health.

There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!

I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.