I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

He gently kissed that scar and felt something changing inside him - just a flutter of change, there and gone, but leaving its mark.

If I had allowed myself to dwell on revenge, it would turn to bitterness, and bitterness is the worst poison a man can give himself.

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?

You know you're tired when you fall asleep in the shower.

Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities.