God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life isn't going to be off limits.

Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience to whom those people wrote.

We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

God doesn't save us to perpetuate a particular Christian sub-culture. He saves us to advance a supernatural kingdom that is not of this world.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.

Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.

You were so sweet when you didn't know who you were.

There is no better day than today to do the things you've been putting off. Take action; it's the only way to change your life!

Don't you know That lovers make the rains, Call forth the sun, Re-route hurricanes, And exorcise earthquakes for fun.

Stop thinking you have to go to big industry to have a big life, because it's not the truth.

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.