Here Spring just grows and greens and warms, spreading life, wrapping us in her arms, until suddenly we realize that she's not a girl anymore. She's a woman. A woman named Summer.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

Too many kings can ruin an army

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise.

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

I'm blessed to be able to do what I do.