"Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones."

“He who saves you from war is better than he who sends you to war.”

Source : "The Proof Is In The Putin". barelyablog.com. September 14, 2013.

“The Christian life is a thank-you from beginning to end as we ponder what God has done. What an absurdity to think that we could ever bargain with God, as if there were anything we could put on the table. Nothing we can do would ever earn his favor. Yet all is ours for free. And the cross reveals his willingness to forgive not just once, but over and over and over again. How can we repay such extravagant, generous love? We cannot and need not, and the heart's only answer is gratitude.”

“A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.”

Source : 'Religion and the Rise of Capitalism' (1926)

“I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.”

“Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.”

“Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.”

“You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That's basically what I'm doing. I'm running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.”

“There is no high-carbon future”

Source : "High-speed rail plan part of strategy to reduce transport emissions" Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2009.