She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.

Forms of love are so many. Just make sure your heart can fit in it.

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

If you want to finish, sometimes you can't just finish. You gotta finish fast!

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day.

Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.

I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.