The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.

It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.

She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement.

A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

The future will be green, or not at all

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

They're 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.