"Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?"

"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."

"When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish."

"We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low."

"It is a radiant truth that the present moment is the only sanctuary where peace truly resides — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

"I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art."