The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.

Have you noticed, " she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

Why is it, " she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?

Only the one who has the understanding of time will be ready to give an account to the Lord for what He did on this earth.

If you care about people and you really love them, you should get angry at the things that put them in danger or hurt them.

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

I think the audience likes to be entertained.

We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.

Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.