Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.
The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.
The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world
Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.
If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement. . . has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. . . It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today. . . But then came the First World War. . . What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.
It's not about government telling people what to do. . . . It's about each of us, in our own families, in our own communities, standing up and demanding more for our kids. And it's about companies like Walmart answering that call.
I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady.
I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.
Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.