I felt a taste of that other kind of contentment that doesn't come from acquiring information or getting praise or building a resume, the kind that is just there, like a hidden pearl.

So, without telling any of my Zen-snob buddies, I liked to pretend everything was the Pure Land, that my life was already perfect as it was.

You can't expect the level of excitement of your audience to be greater than your own.

As a society we should try to never inhibit another person's creativity. In people like myself, it's all we have.

The Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit is God Himself.

The secular world often finds its constituents disenfranchised and solitary as it has spent a great deal of time debating the religious community while failing to build a true community of its own.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.

There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.

...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural... fancy machine.

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

It's not what you say, but what you do that defines your individuality

Tourism is a mortal sin.