Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.

When Jesus enters a place revival fire begins.

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.

All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.