“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”

“Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.”

“A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.”

“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”

“If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own o...”

“We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”

“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end...”

“What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on the computer. But they did this less with honest curiosity than in the spirit o...”

“I've poured my heart out on this page. Now burn it and destroy the evidence that anyone ever cared this much for you.”

“I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.”

“War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.”

“The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.”

“External nature is only internal nature writ large.”