Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?

You two are children almost grown. Your hearts have not hardened to the realities of the world. Your dreams have not fallen through your fingers. You still know hope.

There is no one way to be a magician any more than there is only one way to be human.

Never are we as honest as at night, alone with thoughts and nightmares.

So many men and women I have wronged, reduced to ghosts and shades. They surround me, but I can never let them know I regret what I have cost them, both the living and the dead.

I was just thinking how the purr of a contented cat is one of my favorite sounds in the world. There's something so comforting about it, isn't there?

They will raise, and raise with them their mother's side.

Christians need to be free in standing for their rights

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.

There is no single way to educate.

The whole existence is a temple...the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.

Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.