And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!

Everything can be improved.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

and love is a word usedtoo much andmuchtoo soon.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things.

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

Bad chances were better than no chances.

TV programmes are so bad these days, even idiots are getting rid of their idiot boxes.