You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

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

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

You are either on Wall Street or you’re a bum and there’s nothing in between.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Even the longest journey must begin where you stand.

After I broke the Australian record in 2014, Audi Centre in Canberra gave me a beautiful black A1 with the number plates AI 1111, because the record I broke was 11.11 in the 100.

It takes all sorts (to make a world

If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.