We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.

Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.

Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure.

I do think evangelicals have been under attack.

You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just hired - President Obama - to rebuild from the ashes.

I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static.

Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Everyone should see at least one street race before they die.

The sexual is part of everything, and it's highly formalized. I hadn't done figure for a long time. And I thought to myself, "Why not the erotic figure?"

I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.

You want to write something as good as what you've read.

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

First of all, she Hillary Clinton is going to raise taxes on the middle class. I actually think that's the only truthful thing she's said in about three weeks.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.