I threw my hands on my hips, shocked by the irony. A Mather helping a Greensmith? Hell was freezing over somewhere beneath our feet and every kind of farm animal was sprouting wings to fly.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.

Hail, hail Freedonia, land of the free!

Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

How many people out there really set a budget?

The education of attention would be an education par excellence