Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.
The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.
The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.
Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.
The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops.
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.
My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.
I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.
You are going to be what you put in your body, so I try to teach that to my kids, and the kids around me.
I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook.
Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry.
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
And you find some way to survive And you find out you don't have to be happy at all.. To be happy you're alive.
