“Weve learned that sometimes a lack of conflict in a marriage means you are not fighting for it. There are times you must battle to become one.”

“We do not fight to tear down but to build up.”

“If you are not praying the type of prayers that scare you, your prayers are certainly not frightening our enemy.”

“Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.”

“We’ve learned that sometimes a lack of conflict in a marriage means you are not fighting for it. There are times you must battle to become one.”

“I built an idea in my head of the hero I wanted to be, a grab bag of traits from heroes, villains, and side characters. I did not have book role models, I had book blueprints.But there remained a h...”

“I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.”

“Ethan: "You think I'm a hero?"Beth: "Yes."Ethan: "But lousy husband material?" Like that really mattered to him.Beth: "Don't sweat it. So was Superman.”

“There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolu...”

“Never give up hope, no matter how dark things may seem.”

“That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- sometimes in their underwear. After curfew, everyone locked their doors, turned out the lights, t...”

“Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.”

“One redeeming feature of human beings is that we must work to sustain our survival. Working attaches people to reality; it creates a survival identity, and provides structure to our life. Work prov...”

“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”