Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

The saying of Vatican II is above all, 'Conscience is supreme.'

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother's prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom, grace, and strength they provide to their children.

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.

It takes faith and the courage to risk failure in order to realize one's destiny. Having had my share of failures throughout my career I know that it is well worth the risk.

Tolle, lege: take up and read.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail