I had been allowed to believe in man's innate goodness for the twenty-two years of my life, and I had hoped to carry the belief with me to my grave.

Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew what decisions a woman had or hadn't made.

I wondered if all a person could hope for was illusion and luck, for I was forced to conclude that the world was fundamentally and appallingly dangerous. It is a lesson I will never forget.

Money takes our minds off God.

I'll never fall in love again, " he once confessed to José Palacios, the only human being with whom he ever permitted himself that sort of confidence. "It's like having two souls at the same time.

It's funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.

Jesus Christ is not a security from storms. He is the perfect security in storms

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

The best things are not bought and sold.

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.