A critic is a man who expects miracles.

I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

There are no office hours for leaders.

We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings.

For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there

There are no working hours for leaders.

No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.

Who is the man who can speak to the strong?Where is the fool who can talk to the wise?Men who are dead now have learnt this long, Bitter is wisdom that fails when it tries.

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

Hope is an act of faith. Great faith, great hope.

Being a mother brings us face-to-face with ourselves as children, with our mothers as human beings, with our darkest fears of who we really are.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.

A novice always behaves with propriety.

Heterosexual men terrified me. I found them to be dangerous. Not all of them, of course, but it took me some time to learn to be comfortable.

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth.