“Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.”

“Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less...”

“I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all...”

“Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morni...”

“There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.”

“But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.”

“In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.”

“It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're g...”

“So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.”

“When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over th...”

“Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorb...”

“A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those...”