Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal.

Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer—the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That’s all you need.

Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.

First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.

It gets darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.” That line came back to me, from out of nowhere, and I decided to practice radical hope, hope in the face of not having a clue.

Saying of the ProphetReflectionThe Faithful are mirrors, one to the other.

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

For me, women's ski wear has always been black and, again, not as feminine or sexy as I think it could look while still having the technology there.

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?