I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
I am not capitulating.
It doesn't help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said it best: 'All the time you're looking left and right at other people, you're neglecting what's in front of you. If you focus on looking straight ahead, you can take the odd glance at the future. ' He's got a way of saying things sometimes that just puts everything into perspective.
Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.
Geraldo Rivera says Osama bin Laden is hiding out in Pakistan. . . which means the most hated man in Afghanistan is now Geraldo Rivera.