Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.

When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.

There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families

Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.

I have a theory that theories are destructive.

If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.

As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."

If I was ever glad to have gone, I was never glad to go.

I am free to go wherever I want for the rest of my life.

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people.

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.