Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Purpose is the vision for your existence.

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.

Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

I looooove cookbooks. I cook a lot when I'm pregnant.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate.

Then they ask, "Do you want Jesus to come into your heart?" Does it bother anyone that this formula or language is not found in the New Testament?

Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.