I came to Christ in my early 20s.

Love happens when people forgive.

Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.

Perfect love drives out fear

The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right guy, you'll know, because he'll cherish you.

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

Christmas is a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass our own.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

There are six chakras or energy vortexes that lie along that tube. There is a seventh chakra located several inches above the head, but it is not connected.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

I don't think we live in a place where we don't want people to be able to say when they disagree with the president or incoming administration.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.