I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.

The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.

To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.

Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.

I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.

Remember Whose You Are.

If supernatural life in God's paradise is more important than natural life on earth, then the day you received Jesus Christ is more important than the day you were naturally born. Jon 3:6

For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl, Then sleep the sorrows of our soul. Let us drink the juice divine, The gift of Bacchus, god of wine. When I take wine, my cares go to rest.

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage.

I'm curious about life, period.

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

We're not moving fast enough with where things are going.

Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.