Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Love your life. Because your life is what you have to give.

Let there be light, let there be life.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

It's a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and do it.

English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

Obviously, in my twenties, a lot of downtime was spent having a good time, which I don't regret; that was what I needed to do to get some things out of my system.

Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.