There's no greater purpose than service to others.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski.

You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.

After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

We're also a multi-site church, so we have other pastors on other campuses who want to read the message before the video plays on the weekend services. So it just works better for me.

What love can achieve, nothing else can achieve!

Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.