The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation..

Staying curious and open is what makes growth possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the te….

Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified..

Every intentional act is a magical act..

For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere..

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

The climate is changing, and human activity contributes to that in some manner..

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at..

I was trained as a straight dramatist..

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autob….

I love all of our subpodcasts..

I don't act to live. I live to act..

Never be shamed of being Afrikan.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns..

I've never not been famous..

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad..

Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the k….

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory..

I have to change to stay the same..

You live day by day. You can't build your life..