You cannot taste the oil until you pour out the vinegar.

[Present over perfect is] about rejecting the myth that every day is a new opportunity to prove our worth, and about the truth that our worth is inherent, given by God, not earned by our hustling.

Oh, the quiet moments alone with God I sacrificed in order to cross a few things off the to-do list I worshiped.

We decide where the time goes. There's so much freedom in that, and so much responsibility.

We’re always looking, but we never really see.

When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.

A penny saved is a penny to squander.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.

My first job was an AFI short film, Chasing Daylight, when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

The tao is made because we walk it,things become what they are called.