God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.

Courage encourages courage.

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve.

If you make lots of little changes to your lifestyle, you’ll need to make time to have some fun too, otherwise life can get a little boring.

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.

You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one.

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

Ten years after the Chernobyl accident, and am I the only one that's disappointed? Still no superheros.

How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?

I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

Don’t judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are now.

You kiss by th' book.