The trouble with being angry is that it not only makes you feel stupid, it encourages you to say stupid things as well. Stupid things that are hard to take back and impossible to erase.

How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.

Perhaps love and hope are one and the same.

But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I've heard it said.

Everything is beautiful in its own way, ma belle, even if you have to look hard to find it.

Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.

A home is a place one's heart creates and so recognizes as its own. A place it enters of its own free will. All others are merely dwelling places.

You can shine as a light in this world and you will be safe. The divine has your back.

Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day!

The sun does not rise when you need it most. You rise instead.

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe)

Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.

Lord Kane beat me up,” one said with a grin. There was blood on his teeth. “Did you see?” “Best. Night. Ever.

Our Gospel is a Gospel of blood; blood is the foundation; without it there is nothing.

The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.

I carry with me many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits

I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?