We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

We must endure the present circumstances for a far greater future.

Life is too short to chase perfection, yet too long to be satisfied with mediocrity.

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.

Most of us are married to a model of ministry and we flirt with the Great Commission.

Your guess is as good as mine. Better probably, because you haven't had four beers.

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.

Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.

Trying to make it and get people to respect your band, being a cool band-all of that stuff-I think we've arrived at a place where we have kids and everything is in perspective and it doesn't matter.

Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself.