Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

We do not love each other without changing each other.

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.

Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.