Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its stars, its poetry and fireplaces and laughter, for granted. We forget that experience is not, or should not be, a casual encounter, but rather an embrace. Consequently, for too many of us, when we come to the end, we wonder where the years have gone. And we suspect we have not lived.

Life is a walk in the fog. Most people don't know that. They're fooled by the sunlight into thinking they can see what's ahead. But it's the reason they are forever getting lost or falling into ditches or committing matrimony.

The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.

But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.