The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.

And when his head slumped forward into his book, she giggled, for she knew that he was hers.

It's as if some bored ethereal being is fiddling with the remote control to his imagination, clicking channel after channel without finding anything to capture his interest for very long.

The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.

It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag.

Heaven has no room for the self-righteous.

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on

We all cross a hundred peaks to get even this far. And there will be more before we each make it to whatever God has fated for us.

We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.

What's great about an office Christmas party is that it uncovers and reveals parts of your personality that you didn't see coming.

The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks.

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

Travel not only stirs the blood. . . It also gives strength to the spirit.

[On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies.

Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.

When the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come that following of Jesus which is an unspeakable joy.