We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.