Behind every successful man, there isn't just a woman but a prayerful and hard working woman.If not every married man would be successful

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Literature is news that stays news.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Man confesses God forgives

The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83

A broken heart is not a broken glass

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

If you have life you have money but if you have money you don't have life, for life is like every precious thing you need

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

Don't let anyone's negative thoughts infect your beautiful mind.

Time machines, magic portals, transporters, worm holes, flying carpets, relocation charms—such things do exist. They're called books.

Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.

Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.