And when you get where you’re going, you darn well better look great!

...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.

"Both Christianity and Islam are logocentric," he told his students, "meaning they are focused on the Word. In Christian tradition, the Word became flesh in the book of John: 'And the Word was made flesh, and He dwelt among us. 'Therefore, it was acceptable to depict the Word as having a human form. In Islamic tradition, however, the Word did not become flesh, and therefore the Word needs to remain in the form of a word … in most cases, calligraphic renderings of the names of the holy figures of Islam."

The blind see what they want to see.

Time is a river, and books are boats.