“I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.”

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both

The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.

The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.

I can still enjoy sex at 74 – I live at 75, so it’s no distance.

When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.

We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.

I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.

Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.

My best friend and I love to make fish faces.

You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.

The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.

Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, “I just got done telling you no, there’s nothing to report.”

If we pick recognition over influence we’ll be known for all the wrong stuff.

I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

In most states you can get a driver’s license when you’re sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.

If he had 30 points, nine rebounds and eight assists, I can tell you exactly how he did it, what type of shots he made and who he passed to.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

And we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.

She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.