History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust.

I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.

Focus on things that are small enough to change, but big enough to matter

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.