The world is not divided into the strong who care and the weak who are cared for. We must each in turn care and be cared for, not just because it is good for us, but because it is the way things are.

Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.

We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more 'constructive.

When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for strength to hold on.

It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our neighbor.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.

Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly.

Space is really big-REALLY big.

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says “Uh-oh” and then runs for his life.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life.