If you honestly want to change, surround yourself with people who will help, people who believe you can do it.

It's easy to impress people with our strengths, but real connections are forged through our shared weaknesses.

Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

We find our lives when we give them away.

Rather than being concerned only with my hopes, my dreams, my concerns, I was called to shepherd others. To love them, hurt with them, pour into them.

It's easier to get people to talk to you if you're a vet and you want to interview a vet about war. Sometimes they open up a little bit easier.

I try to stay involved with veterans' issues. I work with some veterans charities.

I'll never forget watching 'I'm Not There' with Cate Blanchett, because it was the first time she saw the finished film and saw her performance in it. I was sitting next to her experiencing it vicariously through her fresh eyes and hoping she liked it.

It's always good to have other people who you can lean on and pick you up when you're down and vice versa.

Republicans have to tell the truth about the issues impacting the black community. The must focus on restoring the black family, jobs, safe communities, and better schools. They have to make sure not to pander to blacks by treating them like victims or as 'special minority' group.

Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!'