The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.

We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.

There are about 360,000 churches in America, so we could mentor a million kids within a short period of time if everyone signed on, which, of course, is a pipedream, but we're going to reach toward that.

Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

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.

He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.