Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

All I had to do was keep turning left.

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

My teammates are the ultimate motivation. They mean everything to me. They are the reason I want to be at my best.

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.