I think that an act of love is immortal; once tendered, it can never really be taken back.

Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.

I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.

To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.

We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same.

Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.

Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.

I feel that the only true security I have is my capacity, however limited, to love.

If there were no nobodies, The somebodies would not have anybody, To convince that they were somebody, Except some other somebody, Who would not be convinced anyway.

Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence.

The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks.

Light in comparison with darkness is a void.

He would never admit it, but he did have a heart of gold under all that crud.Solid, hard, impenetrable gold, but still gold, nonetheless.

It's kind of sad, the brighter they burn the sooner they die. They're beautiful while they last

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

When life is hard, remember - we are not the first to ask, 'Is there no other way?

I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention which logic one adopts. I disagree with this view.

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.