An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by fullness not by reception.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by its own fullness not by its reception.

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

Nations endure only as long as their topsoil.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

Trouble is one of God's great servants because it reminds us how much we continually need the Lord.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Feed the birds in winter; in return, they will feed your soul with the look of gratitude!

The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.

Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.