Mixing is figuring out what is essential to the moment and subordinating everything else

A lot of these gadgets and pieces of technology we use become almost like friends to us, and we expect our friends to have voices.

Our Lord shouts and screams

It is important not to show too many inches at once.

Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.

I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.

I can talk to you all day. I just might not say anything though.

The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.