When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal.

Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer—the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That’s all you need.

Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.

Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.

It gets darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.” That line came back to me, from out of nowhere, and I decided to practice radical hope, hope in the face of not having a clue.

If you put Sen. Kerry in the White House, I think you are going to see that another terrorist attack happen ... and I don't want to see another Sept. 11.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried their best and hopefully succeeded.

The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

Anything you want for life is available to you, the universe is just waiting for you to take the necessary action(s) before it gives you what you want.

The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.

Sometimes God allows us to be tested because He's preparing us for promotion.

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.