One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

Try to understand long before you move to judgment.

We are all more similar than we usually realize.

Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

This is a lesson I continue to learn: Be content where you are!

I do not know everything, I never will, and that is OK.

You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love.

Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another.

As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.

Be content where you are! The sooner I let go of the notion that something could only be one way, the way I had planned it, without fail, I have always gotten more done and with far less discomfort.

Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.

I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside.

Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.

...An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.

Your goal is not to know every detail of the future. Your goal is to hold the hand of the One who does and never, ever let go.

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.