If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Pay no attention to what the critics say

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.

Baby being part of this life I feel like I'm bound to end up with somebody that's been with everybody.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.

If you enter into the spirit of Life, you are really reproducing in yourself the qualities of the Creator of that which allows something to be manifested and created in the first place.