This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.

Oh no, " I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!

The American dream is not about how much money you make or how many buildings have your name on it.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.

Barcelona players are passing the ball at least 25 times to reach the goal, while Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso is doing this all in a single pass.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

I guess we cut Michelle Obama's garden. You hear about that? The Democrats are distressed.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.