Simplification establishes an unspoken emphasis on relationship.

Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other.

Consistency also teaches us that some things do not change, though we may wish they would. Not everything bends to our personal preferences.

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV.

As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.

You could make mistakes when you lived together because you knew you'd wake up the next morning with another chance.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Whatever I did, I did with love and I did with honesty.

The record is definitely a musical journey. It's kind of all over the place, which I like.