My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While someone is in darkness another is in daylight.While person dies another is born.

Later—how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you—Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.

I represent Jesus on this earth and he represents me in heaven.

I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.

...and it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.