It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.

I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day.