Not to decide is to decide.

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Not to decide is to decide.

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.

Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury.

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.

I've just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

You can be as devoted and loving a spouse or a caregiver or child, but you also have to remember that you have to program time for yourself in there, because it will renew you.

What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!

My mom taught me this really great beauty tip. She used to put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she would shower.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of oil-powered globalism dissolves. Places like Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit will have a new life, but not at the scale of the twentieth century.

Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish.

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant.

It is not enough for code to work.

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

In Greek mythology the hero wants to be great but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And its a template that wont fit in India.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

I think you manifest what you believe, and when you believe that you have no choice you lose choice.

Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.