Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going…

- Leif Enger

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

- Leif Enger

Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the I…

- Leif Enger

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

- Leif Enger

Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly. Bewa…

- Leif Enger

Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comf…

- Leif Enger

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

- Leif Enger

Where do you think you’re going?” Dr. Nokes demanded…. “What do you have for directions?” And Dad… said, “I have the substance of things hoped for. I…

- Leif Enger

Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.

- Leif Enger