Courage is saying maybe what I'm doing isn't working, maybe I should try something else.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.

Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging.

Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

Fill your mind Holy Scripture, that speak life into your life.

A woman might save him from a heart attack, but she'll kill him in every other way.

Procrastination is the enemy of action!

I didn't really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.

The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

I'm not dating anyone. I don't even know where I am half of the time.

Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.