The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.