Like other spiritual fruit, joy must be cultivated.

Choose joy! Joy is a choice. Joy is a witness. Joy is a therapy. Joy is a habit. If Jesus, who drank so deeply of the world's sorrow, could be filled with so much fun and laughter, then so can I.

Feelings are involuntary reactions, so God does not say, "Feel joy." He says, "Rejoice!" It's a choice.

Worry is common, it's not good for us, it accomplishes little, and it dishonors the God who cares for us. Worry may be our most enduring form of unbelief.

Joy is found in Jesus when we rejoice in Him. We can rejoice our way to joy!

In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.

Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.

This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.