There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . .

The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.

Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)

Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.

Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.

Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.

Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...

Sitting next to Tilo, breathing next to her, he felt like an empty house whose locked windows and doors were creaking open a little, to air the ghosts trapped inside it.

Cow, goat, chicken, lamb . . . only slaves eat like this, ’ Musa said, heaping an impolite amount on to his plate. ‘Our stomachs are graveyards.

Socrates asked the key question: why should we be moral?

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

We move toward what we picture in our minds.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked.

I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.

E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.

The gospel is not weight, it is wings. It carries us.

Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn't something I grew up with or thought I could be part of.