Frankly, I believe that identity is what's inside us.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

...wary as any burnt child with an unfamiliar fire to contend with.

The intelligent talk and the wise listen.

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.

Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.

She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.

The best way to deal with somebody is to deal with yourself.