"That we're dysfunctional and toxic!""We were dysfunctional and toxic," I correct her.

People lie. They use you and they lie, all the while feeding you bullshit about being loyal and never leaving you. No one can make that promise, because life is all about seasons, and seasons change.

Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.

Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge.

I like pain. I like when it lingers. It reminds a person of what they've lived through.

We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.

I didn't eat pork either. Except bacon, of course. Everyone eats bacon.

You'll be surprised what someone is able to handle given no other choice.

One is a choice, and one is not.

There is more to loving someone than just making yourself happy. You have to want him to be happier than you are.

You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

God does not call us to something without equipping us to do it. He faithfully gives us everything we need to walk with Him into the abundant life.

But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

The original Star Wars ("A New Hope") has had the greatest impact on me of all the films I've ever watched. It's really what sparked something in me to want to make movies.

If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.

Make greatness attainable by all.

The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."