Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

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 have to forgive yourself for your past mistakes, and you have to forgive those that hurt you for what they did to you, or you're never going to fully move on.

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

I ended up majoring in English, which I'm not particularly fluent in.

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

Our #‎ imagination is ten times more potent than our #‎ willpower .