This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

Evolution is adventitious and not foresighted. Only through the deaths of an immense number of slightly maladapted organisms are we, brains and all, here today.

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.

I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.

A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to trust savingly in a Divine object.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

"Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.

I was not going to kick back and wait for the unknown. I was going to dive in and become a full-time healing junkie.

I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

Go pick bananas, we'll run the canal.