Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.

Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

-I am alergic to these flowers.-I know.

Ruexner chuckled and put away his knife. Gisela kept her eyes on Valten. Even though her bottom lip trembled, she still looked like the bravest woman he had ever seen.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He’s always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I’m a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.

A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.