Your relationships will take you beyond the boundaries of your normal strength. Encouragement gives struggling people eyes to see the unseen Christ.

Things will happen when they should. When an event is forced, its outcome would be less than optimal.

True autonomy is preceded by the experience of being dependent. True liberation can be found only beyond the deep ambivalence of infantile dependence.

I wanted to give you everything, to withhold nothing from you, but then one day there was nothing left to give.

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

Every morning when I'm thrashing around on the floor doing my solid hour of heavy exercises I'm not really doing that for anyone but myself. It makes me feel good.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.