Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.

True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder.

We're taking you to the hospital, ' it said, 'you're going into shock. Can you tell us how you

As my creator, God knows better than I do what will truly make me happy.

It is better to exist unknow to the law.--Irish Proverb

How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

Don't be an agnostic. Be something.