People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Science is just as important as magic.

We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds.

When she wraps her arms around my neck, all I want to do is protect this girl for the rest of my life.

We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.

I believe it is possible to tell what sign some people were born under by watching their eyes, watching how they walk, how they talk.

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

Nobody can commit photography alone.

A lot of people want to keep country music in the minority of people. But it belongs to the world. It's art.