Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small and fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her.

The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines.

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.