The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!

We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.

I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.

Terrified, yes. But I run toward the fire now. Not away.

He looks like a ghost, haunted by a life suddenly torn away, and I don’t know how to comfort him.

When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.

If you could work your way to heaven, you would said look what I did, I got myself here by my good works. The only way you are going to make it is to come to that Cross.

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.

I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.

As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.