From the great Jack London: “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” What inspires you?
There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.
I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.
When a couple has a strong preference for a baby boy or girl, who is injured by allowing them to choose? Certainly not the child.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.
I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.
If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.
If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.
