I finally understand that it’s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.

Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.

She was a woman of combined beauty and quiet strength. No wonder he had fallen in love with her so many years ago. No wonder he was in love with her now. And she would never know it.

We can find the answers will seek in books.

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

Luckily they had a stupid on their side too.

Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.

When you don't know what to do with yourself, do something for someone else.

Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

If you don't go within, you go without.

You have this weird thing where you end up trying to fight against this faceless blob, where the more you hate it, the bigger it gets, because it's all in your head.