Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.

There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given—it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the voice of Satan trying to convince the bride that the groom does not love her. This is not the voice of God. God woos us with kindness. He changes out of character with the passion of his love.

Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.