People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

By embracing our brokenness, we don’t come to Christ's feet occasionally, but we stay at His feet continuously.

Be very careful of the words that come out of your mouth, if you wish to save yourself from a lifetime of regrets.

We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

They aren't the brightest crayons in the box -Max(saving the world and other extreme sports)

Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

You can tame feral cats, but you are never gonna get them like a cat that's been socialized at a very young age.

Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.