Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

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.

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled.

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking

Have the confidence to fail. Persistence is key.

I don't know which me that I love, got no reflection.

There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.

Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].