Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.

Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

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.

We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.