It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere.

The economy is turning around, so that's going to help a little bit.

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

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.