Embrace curiosity, be open, playful, and persistent.

Look for patterns, and then ask why those patterns exist.

It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.

I like to describe worry or anxiety as spending today trying to figure out tomorrow. Let's learn to use the time God has given us for today!

My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

It's hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government.

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In fact, I'm sure people are doing it.

The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired.

Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice--one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life.

Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.