When you think about it, the Big Bang's a big like school, isn't

Having children is a lottery and you never know what you are going to draw out. Perhaps it is as well I got none.

I was the ref. I was the ref they didn’t know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win

Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win.

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.

I think celebrities suck.

Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.

My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.