A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

You have to live your life and not count on things being there tomorrow or the next day.

His silence helps him come off as something of a seer, a whispering muse.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.

I gave too much to people.... So much selfish people in life.

Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.