Because human nature never changes.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time.""I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia.""But it keeps not ending.""So far, so good.

These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway.

You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

History is past politics and politics present history.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant.

The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us.

Never presume that just because you disagree with an idea that you must be correct.

Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Say hello...to the BAD GUY!