My story has been the story of my generation.

It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved. One of our great strengths is that we're an optimistic people, but that doesn't mean we don't have sad days.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "No lie will last forever." We have to work at removing lies from our own hearts. And on the national level, we do this not because we blame our country, but because we love it.