Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.