Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

There is no escape if love is not there

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

We do not want to be beginners (at prayer), but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners all of our lives. --Thomas Merton

I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.

It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

Life is too meaningful to die.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.