If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

Anytime I'm not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I'm wasting my time. [Mark's brother-in-law, Matt ________, speaking]

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

...love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.

...if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.

...if you're walking with Jesus and you invite someone to walk with you, there is a good chance they'll get to know Jesus somewhere along the way.

Following Jesus is a verb.

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.

‪Rain is not a seasonal change, it’s a feeling that brings back ‪Memories!

I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.

Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.

I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.