One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.

I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.

Effective love is rarely efficient.

The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.

Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.

We will have to work hard to rest.

Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.

Battling busyness is a community response.

The more my brain was fed, the hungrier it became.

I can turn every "is" into "ought ".

The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

Thoughts are meant to be words and words are meant to be written and what is written becomes a figment of the literature

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

Our private property must be sacrificed.

Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind

Don't give pain to others.

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.