In the corporate world you get a report card every quarter and have to talk about it, whereas the church can drip, drip through bad trends for decades and decades.

We need to become a more welcoming church, one that reaches out more to those who have walked away or who aren't very interested to begin with.

It's not always going to cost money to turn a parish into a more welcoming parish. But it does take a willingness to change a lot of assumptions.

Look what we've done so far. We're pretty good at the impossible.

Humans are not made for endless light. Humans need their darknesses.

We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

Honestly, what planet do these people live on? And why isn't it farther away?

I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place.

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.