Geography is about maps But biography is about chaps.

No two snowflakes are alike.

I have been waiting a long time for this. It's been my dream forever. Now that it's a reality, I love it. I haven't been burnt out at all and I have a bunch of guys with me that feel the same way.

Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I'm thinking of you.

Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied.

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

Without faith, we faint.

What this world doesn't have is the three-wishes, go-to-the-ball-and-meet-your-prince, happily-ever-after kind of magic. We have all the mangling and malevolent kinds. Who *invented* this system?

He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)

Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation.

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.