People who are easily embarrassed – those who blush too often and too soon – usually end up retreating from excellence.

We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.

Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.

(Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change.

A fierce hatred of embarrassment ruled a surprising amount of the life of Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame basketball center.

Give a man a fish

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it'll be okay eventually.

Fear nothing for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons all sins into experience.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

All you have to do is take a man at face value. Don't go into it thinking you can change them. Men aren't fixer-uppers, not like a house or a car. You buy them as is.

You can never find the right bowling ball. This one's too heavy. This one's good but its pink!

I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.

The most ordinary words have amazing life in them.

We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.