If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that.

If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane.

God will not lead you where He will not provide for you.

Some of us are senders and some are goers. Neither is more important than the other. Neither is possible without the other.

When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.

One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever.

God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders.

What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart.

Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

I can't imagine working without and audience.

I have younger kids, and I adopted them late in life. They don't know these people [from Annie Hall] at all.

What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.

Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

Architecture is the work of nations

As a child, I certainly had a fascination with monsters and vampires.

If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting / for the miracle, for the miracle to come.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.