My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

I wanted proof, not promises.

Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.

The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

Great companies connect to the heartstrings of their employees to make their purposes known.

If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.

Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying to make good to dwell on characters from previous books.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

The [stock] market,like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.