People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

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.

A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.

To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.

It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark of motivation blaze.

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

You either believe marriage and human sexuality are sacred, or you do not.

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.