On the whole I feel that life has treated me rather well, but I sometimes wonder how well have I treated life.

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.

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

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.

There is nothing wrong being different. Being peculiar actually makes you stand out from others.

I finally figured out why Voldemort's face is so flat. He ran into the wrong wall at the train station.

She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had.

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

You want your children to be safe. You want your families to be safe. We know that.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.

Sunshine of late afternoon-- On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying--And the immaculate white bed