We have to do a better job at the work of anthropology if we hope to maintain our role in the public discourse.

Our willingness to embrace the realities of our neighbor's difficulty is what empowers our witness and makes our testimony of Christ effective and hearable.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

Sometimes the hardest part of growing it is not the responsabilities you might get, but it is to lose the essence of love, and never find the way back to where it was.

As small as a world as large as alone.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

All talk is lies in a way. Only the doing of a thing can make it true.

The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

They bombed my granny's chippie, left it completely flat. I'll have her for that

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.