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.

If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.

I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them as sins, then neglect much of the rest and call himself a fundamentalist or even a conservative. The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest.

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

When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is.

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.

What do markets do? They consolidate, they breakout, they extend, they overextend, they back and fill, they consolidate, and repeat the process. That's all you need to know about the markets.