Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

Hurry, " she breathed. "I need you to fill me up." "Baby, I'm gonna do more than that.

In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.

If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain

Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.