On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: "If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?

The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or relativism.

At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

The only thing that mattered to me, was the fact that I mattered to you.

Putting 100% effort into "trying" will always make you successful. With that in mind it's important to remember that the effort part is never easy.

I'm Bipolar but as normal as you except for the times my mind thinks like two

I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider.

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.

We need to own problems - but we can't own them all!

Never delegate. Always empower.