We are not impotent. We can choose how we allow circumstances and experiences to influence us. We can change our interpretation of what happened and we can adjust our response to this interpretation.

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.

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

I love my songs, let's not get crazy here.

There's a lot of people I know who have a lot of synthesisers and they don't really know anything about them, they know the specifications and everything, but they don't really get to know them.