It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

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 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.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.