Growing up I didn't watch movies.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Work and wait', 'work and wait' is what God says to us in creation.

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.