We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!
Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.
I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.
Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.
We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament.
In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax and turn on the automatic pilot, and the car will drive itself.
Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.
But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.
Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.
