The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

Help without expecting a direct or immediate payback. You will get rewarded.

A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.

I study men like I study books: I skim their midsections.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.

First of all, with Mitt Romney, I was saying to the Mormons - the Mormons are very smart people.

Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.