The more I read, the more I felt the Bible looked a lot more like the movie 300 than the movie Pleasantville.

Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.

The biggest difference between between religious people and gospel-loving people is that religious people see certain people as the enemies, when Jesus-followers see sin as the enemy.

Our job as Christians is to stick so close to Jesus that when people are around us, they sense him.

When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is—dangerous, unpredictable, radical, and amazing.

We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.

I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I learn? Love is a story you tell with another person.

If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul.

Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country.

I'm very authentic, I think, and what I mean by that is whatever roles that I do take on, I'm really passionate about it.

If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.