As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter.

A popular myth is that learning is largely a matter of motivation. Increasingly, the key to effective learning in the information era is how you think, not how you feel.

I did have a tiny moment in a TV movie called My Sweet Charlie, starring Patty Duke.

Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.

The three salient features of love are: Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is love, there is no pain. Where there is love, there is nothing impossible.

I've never bought a stock unless, in my view, it was on sale.

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

He was strong. And his heart, it was breaking.

The word 'silly' derives from the Greek 'selig' meaning 'blessed.' There is something sacred in being able to be silly.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.