There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.