I believe I'm a born winner. I always think about winning.
Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.
Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any. . . people of any religious faith in this country.
Even though it's important for all of us to change our light bulbs and the vehicles we drive, it's much more important to change our laws and policies. I drive a hybrid and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else. But putting the burden on individuals to solve this global crisis is ultimately not going to be the most effective way to solve it.
Your attention has to be on your Spirit.
. . . a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change. . . . . what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.
The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.