There are times when you wake at dawn and check your neck for the marks of the vampire, those two little red dots, your pupils still contracted with hate, muscles weary from the struggle.

When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants.

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.

Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.

Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.

We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.

Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.