Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."

Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.

We live in a world in which the worst looks as if it is going to happen and the worst often does happen, and yet out of the anguish and waste, love and trust come in new forms.

Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitlers passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.

If our faith delivers us from worry, then worry is an insult flung in the face of God.

Have fun! Live it up! Be happy! Enjoy every moment!

The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression.

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.

Broken necks, splattered patellas, severed arteries: These are the things from which dreams are made of.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.