Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.

The ministry of bearing with one another is more than simply tolerating difficult people. It is also learning to hear God speak through them.

True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness.

...sin is often the attempt to meet a legitimate need in an illegitimate way.

...all of us are somewhere on a journey to God, and the gap between least and most advanced is infinitely smaller than the gap between the most advanced and God himself.

We are not the passive victim of others' opinions. Their opinions are powerless until we validate them.

What I want from you is simple. I want today only.If it’s laughter, I want it. If it’s pain, I want it.Whatever today holds, as long as the day holds you, I want it.I want today only.

I don’t think love is blind, true love is probably the most clear-eyed state of being there is.’‘Maybe you’re right. Maybe with true love, you see and you love anyway…

I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.

Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.