Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.

My memories are like a shuffled deck of cards, each one coming up at random.

Increase is so natural that it starts from before we taste the first breath of life at birth

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

I love blogging, even though apparently it's still dying, and hate it when I have too much going on to do so regularly.

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our reality is in America. Sitcoms just don't show us that.

Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do.