My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

I don't worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible.

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

I was very struck when Min. Farrakhan said if Jesus and Muhammad were here today, they'd be embracing each other. That's a tremendous message that needs to be heard more broadly.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own--my words are gone.

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.

There aren't that many people walking about who are a total class stereotype.

Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan.

In the television business, I don't think anyone will let you go in and pitch a show unless you use the words 'organizing principle' or 'this is the prism through which we see their lives'.

I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.