Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

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

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.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

I think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.