Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.

You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

I should probably start with the blood.

A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe, " Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.

Things fall apart. But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

True love not only attracts hearts, but it also shines like the sun.

Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do for another human being, is to listen to them, just ... LISTEN.

The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.