Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."

Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.

We are made by God, we are made like God, we are made for God.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

Do your little bit of good where you are.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.