Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Man is at his tallest when he bows.