It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

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

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.

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.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.