If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

Slight changes simply make a blur.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

Let me ask you a question. How long is too long to text someone back? My wife still thinks I died in 9/11.

Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.

I'm German, after all.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Every one of us may know what is the ruling purpose of his life; and he who knows that his ruling purpose is to trust and follow Christ knows that he is a Christian.

I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.