Do you know, my arm must be black and blue from the elbow up, for I've pinched myself so many times today. Every little while a horrible sickening feeling would come over me and I'd be afraid it was...

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

Scott: What's the cure?Doctor: There is none.Scott: But that isn't what I heard. The optimist in me translated the gloomy news as "Scott, you will be the first person in the world to be cured of...

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen {'Grin and bear it and get...

Why don't you use some sense and try to be more like me? You might live to be a hundred and seven, too.Because it's better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees, Nately retorted with...

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and...

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

With a true masterpiece, there are no words required. Discourse is rendered redundant. That's why the work of a master transcends all notions of education, of class. It rises above the onlooker's...

Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.

Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of...

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Do you realize that all the great literature - Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, A Farewell to Arms, The Scarlet Letter, The Red Badge of Courage, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, the Bible...

Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling donut?

And you will be scared again. All your life. You must conquer this. Face them and pretend that aren't there

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments...

Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish

He mentioned a dear friend Morrie had, Maurie Stein, who had first sent Morrie's aphorisms to the Boston Globe. They had been together at Brandeis since the early sixties. Now Stein was going deaf....

This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't...

It is too late. The old man shook his head. It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be. He smiled. There is a plan, Dor.

No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of...

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.