...wary as any burnt child with an unfamiliar fire to contend with.

A Grandmother is a safe haven.

If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it.

You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.

Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.

… the greatest mystery, the greatest wonder of creation is that we are capable of both relentless reason and boundless love ... It is not about what we are, but what we can become.– Govinda Shauri

Abba Marcius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.

Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask.

Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium

Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical mass of understanding of the issues.

I think that's the fundamental thing - you can go anywhere you like as long as you're following a character that the audience likes and understands.

The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.