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...

There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient book should be read only by the professionals, and the amateur should content himself with modern books.

Nostalgia tells it like it wasn’t.

His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

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...

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...

The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child. Cicero

Between stimulus, or what happens to us or has ever happened to us, and our response, lies our power and freedom to choose. In those choices lie our growth and happiness.

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