If you get a no from somebody, don't say, 'I'm going to take this as some big cosmic signal.' No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.

Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche

Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.

Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.

Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.

No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.

Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose.

The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.

That's what love does - it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you'll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.

They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.

I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us.

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

If you are advocating full retirement benefits starting at 60, my reaction is the system is already 31 percent underfinanced and can not afford what it's now doing, let alone such a policy change.

Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven.

How do we remember people when they don’t make reservations?

Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.