I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

There are few things I hate more than feeling weak. Needing help or failing top the list. The worst, however, is knowing that all three just happened.

For me the saddest thing was that these animals smelled the brokenness in him – the human defect – and kept away.

None of us is beyond the task of missions...The question is not whether or not we will be working to spread the gospel around the world, but what role we will play in this.

Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished.

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

Oprah is rich, Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out a fuckin' window and slit his throat on the way down saying, "I can't even put gas in my plane!"

In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?

I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.