“I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.”

“Listen, you've got two ears and one mouth, they've got the majority so shut up.”

“Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals”

“True worship can only take place when we agree to God sitting not only on His throne in the center of the universe, but on the throne that stands in the center of our heart.”

“Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.”

“When she was three, I sent her to day care for a coupleof hours every morning. After a few weeks, the teachercalled me and said that she was worried about Lucy. When itwas time for the children to have their milk, Lucy would alwayshang back until all the other kids had taken a carton beforeshe'd take one for herself. The teacher didn't understand. Goget your milk, she'd say to Lucy, but Lucy would always waitaround until there was just one carton left. It took a while for meto figure it out. Lucy didn't know which carton was supposed tobe her milk. She thought all the other kids knew which oneswere theirs, and if she waited until there was only one carton inthe box, that one had to be hers. Do you see what I'm talkingabout, Uncle Nat? She's a little weird—but intelligent weird, ifyou know what I mean. Not like anyone else. If I hadn't usedthe wordjust, you would have known where I was all along . . .”

“There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.”