But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.

If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.

We just need to hang in there a little longer, spend a little more of our energy... Breathe...

Far more than the shield is the Pleasure I get on the field . . . the Joy of the chase is greater than the result of the race.

Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.

How you think about your customers influences how you respond to them.

Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.