Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

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.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.

No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets

We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place.

What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain.

There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.