Extraordinary accomplishments are only achieved when we are able to overcome extraordinary challenges.

Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.

With every adversity and trial comes the opportunity to grow stronger and learn from your circumstance.

Regardless of what we go through in life, there is always purpose wrapped within the pain.

Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.

Through the triumphs there has come a greater confidence and through the challenges has come a greater clarity of purpose.

I did not create my life, so I have no right to negate my life.

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

God welcomes our prayers. He is much more concerned about our hearts than our eloquence.

You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike

Simplicity is the spring of heart.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

Age affects how people experience time.

Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.