I feel like a cliche.

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

Who am I to put boundaries on God’s forgiveness? If God had put boundaries on His grace and mercy to me, when would enough have been enough?

Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside, you say, "Why are they still married?"

Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God's eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God's heart.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.