How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

A cat is always on the wrong side of any door.

I've been accused of riding roughshod over others' emotions, and I admit, when I feel a friend is being over-indulgent, my patience is in short supply.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala," I say with an affected bow.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

Sexuality is pushed back more and more and people try to replace what they've lost with other forms of excitement.

Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give

Sweet are the uses of adversity