Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.

Day by day, there exists the possibility for the dream to come true.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Great entrepreneurial DNA is comprised of leadership, technological vision, frugality, and the desire to succeed.

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act

There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

The Hollywood system has its own problems. Movie making is never an easy job.

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.