Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.

I think God eventually changed my heart simply because I clung to my desire for Him, even though I wasn't sure how to follow through on that desire.

Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.

When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.

Sincere doubts, handled properly, can become a gift.

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?

Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

Being first to ask for help in a friendship takes courage and humility.

While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach

Honestly, Hillary Clinton should be locked up.

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.

Love is real, real is love.

Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.