Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over the long haul.

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.

I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is not scientific commitment.

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to be aware of that.

Believing in unknown future, destiny, predestination without working hard to see it through is a mere fantasy

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.

When you succeed in life, You cannot be sure till you reach at the point you expect.

Human moments are brief, value them when they happen.

Mickey Mouse was supposed to be called Mortimer, but Walt Disney’s wife found it creepy

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.

All of them had a restlessness in common.

Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.

A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.