Our theology must become biography.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human

It's not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts.

There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

Learning patience takes a lot of patience!

It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.

I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

All of our theology must eventually become biography.

A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.

Hope is believing in something that eludes you. It's a desperate feeling in a desperate situation.

I like that you let yourself be surprised

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.

I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.

You've gotta be dynamic in media. That's the only thing that's gonna work.

I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They're meant to make you feel good.

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.