“The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.”

Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.

Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.

I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.

It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!

A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!

But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?