Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
. . . preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse.
Eloiseis getting married as well. ” “Eloise?” Michael asked with some surprise. “Was she even being courted by anyone?” “No,” Francesca said, quickly flipping to the third sheet of her mother‟s letter. “It‟s someone she‟s never met. ” “Well, I imagine she‟s met him now,” Michael said in a dry voice.