I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

I want to be famous everywhere.

My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal equality.

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

When those nerf footballs get wet though then they actually do get heavy.

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.