You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

...At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...

No fairy godmother had ever spent time helping a poor and humble milk maid who was destined to die even poorer and humbler.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft.

Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.