He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear.

They knew that no one heard, that bloodless people cannot be made to bleed. So they blew what everyone had heard before, they reassured everyone that nothing terrible was happening.

It’s a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.

A great part of being human is the relentless quest for better.

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

A strange fact of life is that usually people who are counted out somehow transform into the action figures doing the toughest of times that people can count on.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.

Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.