At the foundation of every life is one central desire: to make a difference that you lived.

Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe.

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

There is no right and no wrong, and there are consequences

Drama is what you do when you have a dream while you're awake.

[The] faith spoken of in the Bible is not a matter of intellectual belief, but a matter of connecting experientially and substantively with the person of Truth, Jesus.

WHY did she do this? She was a terrible drunk texter. All the things she wanted to say to people during the day came out at night, like a vampire.

When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

We've been given a second chance. How many people can say that?

Memories, good and bad, can be used to help us heal if we don’t let ourselves be mired down in them.

If wool shrinks when you wash it, why don't sheep get smaller when it rains?

Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.

Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.