I had become an arrow of sound aimed at the most terrible creature in the city.

On a morning like this, fear is a blue sky emptied of birds.

Unconditionally love people for what they are not what they should be.

If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness!

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.

But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?

I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all.

Being a sociologist means never having to be bored

But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.