I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.