Spiritual practices performed in the middle of our mundane days bring us into the presence of an astonishing God.

Don't get so focused on where you're going that you forget the people you're travelling with. There's no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone.

A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life.

Long have I dwelt forgotten hereIn pining woe and dull despair

The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putin’s critics have an uncanny habit of turning up dead.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average

The way to "find" the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.