The desert shatters the soul's arrogance and leaves body and soul crying out in thirst and hunger. In the desert we trust God or die.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.

O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.

One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

Life is never free of contradictions

If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.