Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Racism is a big problemCreated by small minds

That's what my perfume would smell like, margarita and vodka.

Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.

To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Get on the floor floor like it's your last chance. If you want more, more then here I am.

The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.