The deliberate habituation of patriotism has a bearing upon the problem of peace. Knowledge of other peoples will not bring harmony and mutual goodwill unless it is sympathetic knowledge, and, if it is to be sympathetic, our mental prepossessions mus...
Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a m...
Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose “the spirit ...
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natur...
Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never e...
If there were no tears, our ribs would burn.
Our last garment is made without pockets.
This is not just "our" world.
But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.
Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself.
Grief does not change you. It reveals you.
[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends.
Most parents don't know really their children.
I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.
When was the last good kiss you had?
A sequel that will exist just for us
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway
Passion can’t sustain itself forever.
. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
Mediation on the scriptures transforms our lives.
