So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it

I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have - I can reflect light into the dark places of this world - into the black places in the hearts of men - and change somethings in some people. Perhaps others may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life.

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.