I used to get down on myself a lot if I missed a shot, and it would just break my focus. But now I stay mentally tough and try to just forget about that play and keep on going.

I just go and play hard. That's who I am.

I can be one of the dominant players, maybe the dominant player, in the East.

I can't be someone I'm not. I try to be a warrior on the court, but where I come from, being macho doesn't get you anywhere.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti.

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

The love of Jesus is the source of salvation. He loves, he looks, he touches us, we live.

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

O Lord, correct me, but with judgment: not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.