We were made to be mirrors perfectly reflecting God's goodness, but with sin that mirror fractured and the reflection is distorted.

We need imperfection in our relationships, else we would die from the thickness of intimacy.

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?

By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.

A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?

When I was a kid, you ate, and you drank, and you passed out and nobody woke you up and said, 'Let's go shopping.

I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.