The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

This isn't a war, " said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

Learn, because life is ahead of you. Live, because death is before you. Listen, because wisdom is all around you. Love, because God is inside of you.

I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable.

The universe is a mirror—if you smile at her, she smiles at you with joy.

She liked the words

Your prayer life is the foundation of your relationship with Christ.

I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.

Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.

I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.