The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own. - C. S. Lewis

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

Among these Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. He claims to forgive sins. He says He has always existed. He says He is coming to judge the world at the end of time. Now let us get this clear. Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd about it. But this man, since He was a Jew, could not mean that kind of God. God, in their language, meant the Being outside of the world, who had made it and was infinitely different from anything else. And when you have grasped that, you will see that what this man said was, quite simply, the most shocking thing that has ever been uttered by human lips.