The minister's brain is often die "poor-box" of the church.

Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.

Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.

I'm a big believer in creating family traditions. Every Tuesday morning, I make a proper eggs breakfast, and we all sit down and eat.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

I decided I would never do interviews again.

EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.

Haiku is a way of culling things from the stream of things that rush past the senses.

I really like when people do 'stream of consciousness' tweeting, or when people's tweets come across as sort of manic and mostly unedited.

The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.