I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity.

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

No tears come, only memories. Memories and regrets.

Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.

Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?

Dr. Paul Ekman is a great guy... studying micro-expressions... gestures... and many other facial expression... body movements....

The obscure, unexplainable aspect of the writing process is about how some rhymes appear in your head. It often feels more like tuning in to some kind of channel than composing words in your mind.

As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

To my mind, there are no unattractive women; only those who haven't been awakened by love . . . A woman is often like a strip of film-obliterated, insignificant-until a man puts the light behind her.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it. It's fun to be no-holds-barred and have no big crisis of conscious.