Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.

Running is always an exercise in humility.

Running has taken me in, and continues to comfort, heal and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a 'good runner' because I am me. I am a good 'me' because I am a runner.

If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.

Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.

When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.

It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.

Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.

You can't win a fight with a fight.

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.

Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.

I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.