We will have to work hard to rest.

I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.

Effective love is rarely efficient.

The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.

Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.

One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.

Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.

Battling busyness is a community response.

The more my brain was fed, the hungrier it became.

I can turn every "is" into "ought ".

The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction. There is no section in between.

Your total intelligence knows exactly what to do, because you were made to weather the storms of life.

We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You can enjoy the birds and their beauty, but it is the sky that lasts.

Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict.

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Who's to say the effort to be real isn't the beginning of wings?

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.