Light is constant, we just turn over in it.

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.

It's hard when you're missing your family, " Pip said, and started the motor. " You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky

Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.

Every kid Grade 6 and up carries a cellphone - with that they can access the world. They are the most connected, aware generation that's ever existed.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.

I think you can look at a woman's legs while she delivers the news and still take her seriously.

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.