I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal.

Ultimately a life message shouts more clearly and loudly than a brand message. Your image may communicate an outward brand, but your life shouts the real inner message.

There are four principles we really taught: to live passionately, love completely, learn humbly and then lead boldly.

The only thing that will really matter at the end of your life is: Did you love completely?

THANKS: Be Grateful for what God has given you GIVING: Be Faithful with what God has given you.

We use a lot of creativity and new technology, cutting edge things to use in our church, but really what it comes down to is God changing a life.

And that is why I think that God has used it in churches because we have seen a lot of healing take place in churches and we have seen a lot of healing take place in families.

The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV-more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.

When a hug is this big, you feel it for days.

To Savor The Scene, A Book, or A Friend.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

Today, Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed when he learned that a firehouse isn't a house where you get to fire people.

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.

I've always been into working out and eating healthy. That's just who I am.

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.