God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.