I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful.

I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.

People tell me I have the best job in the world, which is true, but I also work with some of the best people in the world.

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation.

I felt you before I knew of your existence, maybe it was a hint from the universe to continue on the yellow brick road, so when I would find you along my travels I would simply just know.

Abiding in the vine leads to fruit bearing.

If you boiled down the gospel to one word, it would be love.

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.

I write poems to find out why I write them