Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that, ’ he said, ‘but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid.

the only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself.

I was a typical kid. I dug holes in the yard, threw rocks, had plum battles with the neighbours and used trash can lids as shields. I was always outside getting dirty.

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

We need more American energy. It keeps wealth at home. It keeps our wealth from ending up in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. It creates jobs at home.

My Maserati does 185, I lost my license, now I don't drive.

That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.

Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.

None is so blind as he who sees too much.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.