Extend a hand whether or not you know it shall be grasped.

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.

Extend a hand whether or not you know it shall be grasped.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

Find patience in the breath of life.

Individually we are one drop. Together we are an ocean.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.

I hope I can be a filmmaker where every movie will be different, and not make one type of movie. I'm always looking for a character that interests me.

You never hear about good seafood places.

I love Hershey's chocolate, especially Kisses, which are my favorite.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

Controversial disputes are a part of democratic culture.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.

We are injured and hurt emotionally not so much by other people or what they say and dont say but by our own attitude and our own response.

Climbing may be hard but its easier than growing up.

Most of the Catholics Christians I've met would for all practical purposes believe Jesus is God only, and we are human only. We missed the big point. The point is the integration, both in Jesus and ourselves.

In the art of marriage the little things are the big things.

Immersing myself in Shakespeare's plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant, plain-spoken professor changed my life: It opened up the great questions; it put my petty problems into perspective. It got me out of bed in the mornings and kept me in the library late into the night.

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

The Gospel is not an alternative, it's an ultimatum.

I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.

I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.

Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.

The Zionists have no right to the land of Palestine. There is no place for them on the land of Palestine.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.