But we don’t run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people.

Nothing lasted forever. Not peace. Not war. Nothing.

Because we can't just blow up enough things that this becomes a good situation.

God save us all from good-looking men.

Some things were secret even after you told them.

My heart only beats as an echo of yours.

Let go of this world and take hold of God with both hands.

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.

...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

Life is not fair, it never was and it is now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.