There is no one anywhere as available to everyone everywhere as is God.

If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities, we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch. Not because of our lovely characters, but because of his.

God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.

We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.

Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!

Joy is God in the marrow of our bones.

The great doing of little things, makes the great life.

Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.

it is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint.

Creativity is, in many respects, a response.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

This nation is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately embraced by strangers.

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

We want to destroy each other by making the other fall in love with us.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

Does it give you déjà voodoo how alike the houses are?" "That's déjà vu, and I hate you right now

A special pathway to citizenship is off the table... when I talk to members of the group in the Senate, they're saying that we're both saying the same thing.

... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.