If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.

Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair.

She had gone through the veil and returned to Earth. But the veil only opens one way.

Trust yourself to be able to confront and work through your emotions. If you believe you can’t do it, you won’t do it and you’ll become stuck. If you believe you can do it, you will.

He understood. In lovesickness we had found a common language.

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

My glass of wine and I are besties.

I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.