You'll never be as OK with the thought of dying as you are in the moments when you know that you are truly living

You haven't lived life to the fullest until you've found something worth dying for

The greatest things in life always come with a chance of great loss

It is good to be willing to stand as a hero, but you must also be willing to fall as a hero

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

At the foot of the cross, there are no racial barriers.

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.

I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.