The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

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.

Come out, O lions, and shake off the ancient mysticism and prejudices.

Work in such a way that your work will glorify the Lord

This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.

Being in love is to be half-cooked inside an eggshell called love.

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.

I believe in freedom of expression, I don't believe in censorship.

We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.