I'm amazed at what I have taken for granted. How to truly take in our situation I don't know, but I wish I had started asking myself that question earlier than I did.

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

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

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.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people - if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are - you may have lost perspective.

That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."

I've been living for 17 years, and I've noticed human relations is the most difficult thing to understand.

I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times.

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.