But let me perfectly clear because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250 000 a year you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

To us family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

In this connection faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

Faith means intense usually confident belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith to moving to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

My faith means everything to me. God and I talk constantly.

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously and I would I think be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.