Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

I don't ask for your pity but just your understanding - no not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you and the enemy time in us all.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.

Only the half-mad are wholly alive.

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and I like to think now that I have shown dramatic improvement.

Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.

The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.