Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.