We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.

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.

Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless

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 times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.