I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

I thought you came down right on the side of go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars.

I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone's afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

When I make exciting plays, it's usually because I was in the right place at the right time.

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.