We need to become a more welcoming church, one that reaches out more to those who have walked away or who aren't very interested to begin with.

In the corporate world you get a report card every quarter and have to talk about it, whereas the church can drip, drip through bad trends for decades and decades.

It's not always going to cost money to turn a parish into a more welcoming parish. But it does take a willingness to change a lot of assumptions.

Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place.

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

Don't go overboard with too many accessories and too many different things.

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.

It's a great time to book vacation travel for the winter, .. After the first of the year, airplanes are empty, resorts are empty, and they are very excited to get early bookings.

I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good.