There is no excuse for failure when you gave up

There are not wings of dreams that have not previously dealt with the flight of black thoughts.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.

Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.

Sometimes people do things that are complicated. For complicated reasons.

Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.