Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

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

She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.

What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.

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

I am early in my story, but I believe I will stretch out into eternity, and in heaven I will reflect upon these early days, these days when it seemed God was down a dirt road, walking toward me. Years ago He was a swinging speck in the distance; now He is close enough I can hear His singing. Soon I will see the lines on His face.