The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.
The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.
I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.
I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs.
I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.
I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.
Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.
Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits of a social order are shared in an equitable and just manner.
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.
I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.
If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.
Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
