He's been huge for us, ... He pitched great, but it was the way he hit the ball and catches it, too. He does it all. He was a big part of our state championship, a big part.

Fear constipates Faith.

She had nothing to lose, so I believe she was betting. He had everything to lose. That's why I don't think he bet. But think about it. It's probably cheaper to live with her than (divorce) her.

Students can work on PowerPoint presentations, or whatever they need to. The key is that it's all in one place.

[Luther could have solved this for us by coming out, but I can't hate on him too much for his silence. As I've said before, artists get moral allowances the rest of us don't. Their art is their get-out-of-jail-free card.] Luther's only politics, ... were music and love: He lived for the love of music and believed resolutely in the power of music to heal by affirming love. In that sense, Luther was an ethicist who taught any of us who would listen as much about love as did James Baldwin or Marlon Riggs or Marianne Williamson any other seer for whom Love with a capital L is the ultimate act.

Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.