Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

Invest your evaporating time and leave a legacy behind for future generations.

What do you mean Ronan's a magical entity? Is he a demon? Because this all makes sense if so.

To get where you want to go, the first question you always have to answer is Where am I? ... We only find out where we are when we find out where He is. We only find ourselves... when we find Him.

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

The cross is steady while the world is turning.

I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.

I've done coke 'til my nose was bleeding like the fourth week of Lilith Fair.

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

I just want to keep writing music.