We have to find areas in our lives that we feel most uncomfortable about and want to change. I decided to push myself because it allowed me to give back. I have a scholarship program. When I found out the average age of a homeless person is 9½ years old, I said there must be something that I can do. Now, I am the spokesman for the National Coalition for the Homeless.

---

True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

---

Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.

---

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.

---

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

---

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

---

The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.

---

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

---

I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like "Wait, what's happening?" so I Googled it. For everything Obama stands for and the things he's said in the past in his books, especially with the Trayvon Martin thing - and I'm not sure if he [made his comments on Trayvon] because he was asked a question and he was trying to be diplomatic and neutral - that can't happen.

---

There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.

---