I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God. Eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts now. It's not about a life that begins at death; it's about experiencing the kind of life now that can endure and survive even death.

Two of the most powerful words you can hear someone say are ‘me too.’

You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.

I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people.