What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.

God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our “capacity to receive” a blessed and sanctified nature.

A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He would fashion us eyes to see and bid us shut them to the stars

The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is, and knowing that a thing is not.

What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.

Relationships are the core of our existence because they are the core of God's and we are in His image.

...our minds are driven to answer questions that far transcend the bounds of our own lives.

God resides most strongly and evidently where science has not yet progressed to go... And if this is true then it follows that God resides everywhere and in everything.

When your intentions are to serve, you will be served.

They had nothing in common except for existing in the same time and space

A good joke doesn’t necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one’s own deserving jokes.

Connecting expands possibilities - in work and in life - for ourselves as well as for others.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.

If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.

Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.