With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.

The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.

How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.

My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal.

To conquer death you only have to die.

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.

Words mean nothing.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.

I went to college parties when I was at an appropriate age to go to college parties.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

But sometimes, that depth of need—to save, to protect—can become a blinding fervor, one that destroys the very thing it thinks to safeguard.

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.