It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.

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.

A friend is a favourable family.

Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

The thing that I like about public-access is that I am often in the middle of chaos.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.

I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.