Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

Just because you are going to Heaven doesn't mean you have Heaven established in you. Success is Heaven on earth.

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.