People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.

Even our beliefs have become trend statements.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

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.

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.

We have to have positive male role models.