….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.