Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

You have to accept and agree with this short notice that “having a dream is different from fulfilling a dream”. “To have a dream” is just a bargaining process

I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.

... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.

Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.

It would be a shame to go out with a hot girl you can't have a decent conversation with!

It's not all about content. It's all about stories. It's not all about stories. It's all about great stories.

Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!