What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta.

A sky full of silent suns.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

People who think they're out of this world always make you wish they were.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

(i'm all over that)...like a duck on a junebug.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without eror, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.

For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities.

Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.

The sea appears all golden Beneath the sun-lit sky.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style. Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile.

Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 "The clergy," says Canon Rhymes, "are called to give to the laity the benefit of their theological understanding and so help them to account for and understand the faith which is in them." But surely there is no point in trying to account for faith: the moment it is accounted for rationally, it is no longer faith. Those whose hearts are filled with the Christian spirit... are best left to proclaim the Gospel in their own words and, above all, through the example of their own lives.