His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.

Boethius moved from considering history from the actor's point of view to a 'timeless' eternal view. From the divine perspective, nothing is ever utterly lost, because all of life is possessed by God in the eternal now. Though time was gnawing away at Boethius and stealing all he valued, God was beyond time and loss. Gaining this philosophical vantage allowed the last Roman to become one of the first men of the Middle Ages.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you've had enough of them to provide reference.

The task of defending capitalism was still important to leave to the capitalists.

Ask God to give you the fifty-year view of your hurt.

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.

There is no past and future for those who exist in the now. Live in the moment, today is the only reality.