The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God’s vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition.

There's a darkness to everyone, you just have to let it out to see the world in new eyes.

Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come desire is the wish it may come.

I like comedy, not violence, but violence is making a lot of money. But comedy is what I like.

I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.

If we (Lauren and Jim) ever get married, we're just going to put helmets on, run into each other from a hundred yards, and smash together like rams

Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.

God, I needed you," he murmured. "I can't even tell you how many times I thought about this. The funny thing is, I don't need you any less now. I think I need you more." ~Shane~

Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.