A theology that endangers life rather than "giving life" is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian.

When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.

True leadership is about pulling forth the gold in everyone and believing in people before they deserve it.

Only a coward carries a gun, a brave person never needs a gun.

Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house.

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.

If you wanted to remold people, you had to break them down first.

Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.