I don't have time every day to put on make up. I need that time to clean my rifle.

The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid.

If I'm ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged -- but not until I'm down to a size eight.

Take 5" is the practice if spending 5 minutes a day giving focused attention to your hopes for your talent.

Use your strength, but always remember that any strengthmay become a weakness.

We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.

Ah, my Knight in Shining Armor. What, you don't think I can fend for myself?

We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

Isn't it amazing that the God who is in total control of this universe will take time out of His day to hear us pray to Him?

We tend to find what we look for in other people.

There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.

I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; it doesn't reflect my life experience.