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

Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.

It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

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.

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?