The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy.

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

It's the song in your heart that wants you to help make yourself a better person, and to help other people do the same. Everybody has one.