It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being content.

Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen.

What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

This is not the time to panic, this is the time to praise!

Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.

I think I'm a really hands-on mom.

War is organized murder, and nothing else.

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

It's not so much what you do, it's just how well you do it, and that you do, do it.

Our soul lives in Peace and lives for Peace. If we live a life of peace, we are ever enriched and never impoverished. Unhorizoned is our inner peace; like the boundless sky, it encompasses all.