One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Pluralism is denied logically; inclusivism is denied scripturally, and that leaves us with exclusivism... you have to know that Jesus died and believe in it in order to be saved.
I think it is quite remarkable actually that Pope Benedict has a sense of the variety of ways in which it is possible to be a Catholic. I think he is more comfortable with a plurality of expressions of Catholicism in different rites, traditions than many of us are.
There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they were first shared with us.
Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.
There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.
Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.
We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of organisms and biological things that wouldn't be here were it not for us.
Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.
When it comes to the population explosion, there are two questions on the table. One, is our population growth going to kill us all? And two, is there any ethical way to prevent that from happening?
Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
As for me, my foundations were laid in the south. We did the post-production of 'Hum Paanch' in Chennai, with many technicians from here working for us.
The deconstructed, postmodern pizza has been with us for ages, and the fact is that pretty much every ingredient in the world has been used as a pizza topping and liked by somebody, somewhere.
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
