The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more?

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.

Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.