No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

Eliminate the tyranny of magic from mankind.

Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.

I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m.

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

The world will die, but I shall not die.If God dies, then I will die;If he does not die, then why should I die?

Education is civil defence against media fallout.

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

No arts, no letters - no society.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.