Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.

Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

Christianity had never been more itself, more consistent with Jesus and more evidently en route to its own future, than in the launching of the world mission.

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

I made the record, and I sent it over to Jay Brown, who was working on Rihanna's album. He was like, "Send me that record for Rihanna."

Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.

funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real.

I'm concentrating on singing so much. I don't think of anything else.