Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries. . . and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.
Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.
Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!
Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.
Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.
So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.
Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of the king with great honour. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground, and he commanded it to fly. The feather flew, not because of anything in itself but because the air bore it along. Thus am I, a feather on the breath of God.
Let Revolutionists be Romans, not Tatars.
Do not judge the way i show my feelings. It's weird, it's different, but it's true.