We live in a society in which unnecessary conformities are the very essence of necessity

It is the confession, not the Priest, that gives us absolution

It is not the one that falls first that matters, but the one that gets up to help the other

That's all right, " she told him. "I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine."Four pairs of eyes looked at her with a distinctly male skepticism.

I’ve always had a thing for men with large hadron colliders.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.

It's important to over-deliver on the quality of the books as far as depth and content. It's not worth it to cut out 50 pages just because it would be a little bit cheaper.

If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.