Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all contractual, people won't know how to believe.

Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.

That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

The trust is a matter of love and faith is a matter of truth. The two together give you the guidance that you look for.

Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.

My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

The jester is brother to the sage.

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

My whole life I have been in a hurry, like running fast after a goal, and now I realize it's nice to sometimes slow down a little bit and enjoy the ride.

My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].

A virtue which is divine is humility.

Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.