Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.

There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."

It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.