The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed.

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county

Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.

Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.

Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.