Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.

Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.

What is with these guys? Where's the thrill in watching snakes eat?I certainly didn't thrill in watching humans eat.

If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

I like gambling on stuff that you don't know anything about. That's when it's exciting.

The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God.

In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.

Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.