While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Wo ai ni, Tessa,” he whispered. “Wo bu xiang shi qu ni.” She knew, without knowing how she knew, what the words meant. I love you. And I don’t want to lose you.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

the mute protest in your own bones

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire.

There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.

Perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead.