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

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.

Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.

We cant do everything with a budget but we can put the country on much sounder financial footing.

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.

Economic conservatives like immigration reform, and in fact, many of them supported the bill that John McCain and I put together in the Senate.

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

In the case of non-signatory states like Syria and Iraq, the U.N. Security Council is mandated with enforcement of the International Criminal Court's jurisdictions in matters of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

I like part-time jobs in restaurants.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.

I respect motorcycles so much. They've come such a long way. It's amazing!

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

I respect every religion.

If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.

Since a politician never believes what he says he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.