This Captain had been brought up in Istanbul. His mind was made of minarets and domes. He capped himself with spacious ease. He was his own call to prayer.

...love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down

The past is magnetic. It draws us in.

History is a madman's museum.

There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up.

I can change the story. I am the story.

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Political correctness is a minefield

Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things!

Now you must practice to see something without allowing any thought to rise. Then you start sucking through your Spirit the beauty, the glory, the fragrance of a flower.

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.