I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

I started Storyline after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a New York Times bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.

I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves.

Somehow I had come to believe that because a person is in need, they are candidates for sympathy, not just charity. It was not that I wanted to buy her groceries, the government was already doing that. I wanted to buy her dignity. And yet, by judging her, I was the one taking her dignity away.

Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

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