One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.

I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.

Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.