Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual

Everyone can run the race, but not to the same place.

Everyone can run the race, but not at the same pace.

There are a lot of goals and ambitions that I have in life, things I want to accomplish. Who knows? I mean - it could be politics one day. I want to have a life that can help people.

I don't really feel like I have anybody to answer to but myself and God and the people I love.

We compare our behind-the-scenes with other people's highlight reels.

My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

When I ask God to change my actions, that honesty about my own inconsistent behaviors forces me not to be so hard on other believers. Humble acknowledgment of the plank in my own eye gives me more patience with the specks in everyone else's (see Matthew 7:1-5). Instead of pointing the finger at others, let's allow God to examine us.

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.