To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go, to learn about the stuff we are made of.

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

The first thing a principle does is kill somebody

How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?

I think Hillary Clinton understands the ins and outs of the White House better than anyone who's come before her.

I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.