If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.

I'm easy with employees. I make sure they get credit for their work. Naturally, sometimes a guy will screw up, and I'll have to apply some "retraining."

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

Hannah wasn't my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who mattered. (pg 222).

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum potential.

Throw high risers at the chin; throw peas at the knees; throw it here when they're lookin' there; throw it there when they're lookin' here.