We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Apparently the rarest commodities on earth are truth and honesty.

It hurts because He is treating your spiritual disease, just as a good medical practitioner does for his patients.

The language of nature is silence.

The beauty of the future can only be seen by those who are very optimistic about the precious things life has to offer.

"Wait'll next year!" is the favorite cry of baseball fans football fans hockey fans and gardeners.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.

Get ticked and get going.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.