When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.
Don't waste your breath proclaiming what's really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.
There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.
I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.
This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child….
I don't know if God exists and I don't care. God's will and design for this temporal and spatial vastness, if any, is so patently, deliberately impenetrable that I doubt any mortal has a grasp on it. The very inexplicability of sad events like the tsunami, like the AIDS crisis or even like the cancer death of the father of one of my daughter's 2nd-grade classmates last week are, to me, reminders to focus on our obligations to one another, not to the infinite; to honor the creator, if any, by honoring creation itself and hoping that's good enough.
We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films and television programs, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.
If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?
Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.
I just love, I love, I love movies.