Author challenges parents to bridge the gap with maturing, more independent kids with what he calls "Knock and Pray". He says parents should invite their kids to unscheduled times to "pray... big".

The controlled freak-out is a beautiful thing. (Ephesians 4:26)

Life is a gift and a challenge.

To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear.

Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.

When leaders behave consistently with the expectations of customers, they are doing things inside their organization that deliver value outside.

It's not about talent, it's about heart. It's about who can go out there and play the hardest. They're not going to give us anything, so you've got to go out there and you've got to take it.

I am spending much more than I'm making on these cars and these vacations, is that too much information?

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.