It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names.

It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.

And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.

The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional.

And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.

The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.

And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter.

We live to give.

How is it possible for one to own the stars?""To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly."I don't know. To nobody.

Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven.

I learnt to drive at around eleven years old. In an old jeep on a field in Colorado. There were lots of ditches. I could barely see over the steering wheel.

Blackberry Smoke is the real deal!

[Melania Trump] would go home at night and didn't even want to go out with people. She was a very private person.

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.

We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order.

I never try to get noticed. It just happens. I never try.