Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

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.

I have no regrets. Everything that happens to me was divinely ordered.

Liberty isn't bestowed

Sleep is God. Go worship.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

I don't believe that human ethnic groups are equal, and I believe that's fairly easy to prove.

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

I've never met a bread basket that I didn't love. At the same time, it can make me tired.

As long as I'm having fun, I'm not quitting.