How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it. That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.

We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God's fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for 'the bush was not consumed.

Choose your thoughts and beliefs wisely.Be your own best friend, and not your enemy.

To know God is to be adjusted to daily living.

We lost our way, our society lost our way.

To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours.

The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.

On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.

I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.

Speech is the mirror of action.