Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest We want sanitary food, planetary conquest

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could’ve been a strangled gasp. Above all, it was quiet, and it seemed to have no source. It whispered.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.

Do you know what Irish Alzheimer's is? It's when you forget everything but your grudges.

The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own experience?" enables you to connect.

If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

When I finished my last job, at Global Crossing, it was the first time in God knows how many years that I wasn't in a job. It was probably 32 years or so, and there I was, it was like pow!

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.