Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

You need to be focused on what the Lord has entrusted in you

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner.

Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.

We must always be aware of the fact that the body, soul and mind are to be trained simultaneously, for otherwise it would be impossible to gain and maintain the magic equipoise.

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal.

The amazing thing about working in social media and technology is that you can get to know the sharpest thinkers from around the world without having to spend hours on planes!

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.