You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.

Taste is a mystery.

As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity.

Everyone should get to clobber a princess at least once," Jason said.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free.

I feel like Jonah Hill would be a good selfie, or Jennifer Lawrence. They'd be really good ones...Historic.

I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.