A broken heart is not a broken glass

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Literature is news that stays news.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Man confesses God forgives

Behind every successful man, there isn't just a woman but a prayerful and hard working woman.If not every married man would be successful

The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

If you have life you have money but if you have money you don't have life, for life is like every precious thing you need

You could pay for power, but would never buy dignity.

One of the best things that you could ever do for your life, is to follow your passion, turn it into a dream, and introduce it to the light of reality.

The devil loves it when we say we believe then prioritize everything in our lives ahead of God.

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

I don't think we live in a place where we don't want people to be able to say when they disagree with the president or incoming administration.

I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.