You never know how you're going to affect people.

Put God first in everything you do ... Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift ... I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, or dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt by the heart.

The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love...the faith that you have - that’s what’s going to define your life.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?

A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

How can we afford to live in the world in which one has to die [one day]? We are eternal.

What I go for in my cooking is sinful, bold and real.

Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

Mom used to say that having three boys was kind of like having a pet tornado that talked back.

You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

You must spend time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in practice of creative envisioning.