But it was too late. I was down the steps and out the door, where the warm night air almost felt like forgiveness.

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

The grace of service is heart of belonging.

In America, anybody can be president.That's one of the risks you take.

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

It takes a lot of doing to die.

Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone with you?

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.