The slip-box is as simple as it gets. Read with a pen in your hand, take smart notes and make connections between them. Ideas will come by themselves and your writing will develop from there.

Grit can be cultivated. Having a growth mindset, finding purpose and passion in your work, and maintaining self-control helps develop grit.

Unconditional love is love without the conditions—the F.A.C.E. —of ego. Such love is free of fear.

Interests may form and reform many times over the course of a lifetime. What is not ephemeral is the courage to follow your interests wherever they lead.

Once the dominant ethos was about doing your duty, but now life was about doing your own thing. Where once the group had come first, now the individual came first.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships—marriages, families, and organizations of every kind— together.

Learn to enjoy the present moment from your inner child.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

If you run a business, try to develop societal trust through contribution.

The life of discipleship can only be maintained so long as nothing is allowed to come between Christ and ourselves—neither the law, nor personal piety, nor even the world.