The biggest challenge in working together is simply listening.

I've been writing plays since the third grade. The biggest difference now is that professionals act in them rather than eight year olds...and the language is a bit more "colorful".

I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.

The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.

Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

I certainly discourage people getting involved with any group or organization that foster living a homosexual lifestyle.

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.

[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.

The Holy Spirit helps us to view others with fresh eyes, seeing them always as brothers and sisters in Jesus, to be respected and loved.

We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.