One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest.

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.

My mind cannot grasp forever, " she told him. "There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?

The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they're called – you know, the ones who mend pipes and things – ""Plumbers?"" – exactly, yes, but of course they're flummoxed.

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.

I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.

His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

There's no love without pain.

I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.

The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend.

To die at the command of another is to die twice.