We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.