Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.