Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

Sanders was a friend of chickens.

The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.

[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

If a man can't love you for who you are, he's not worth The Dior Gloss.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then its yours forever. If it doesnt, then it was never yours to begin with.

Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples of Jesus came from all walks of life.

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.

People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.

I'm washed, I'm forgiven, I'm whole, and I'm healed. I'm cleansed and I'm glory bound. I am only a sojourner on the earth.

A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

I've gone through three changes- I thought I was a Christian then I was the devil then the third one, where I know who I am you know I feel like I'm an alien.