We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine.

Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.

Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

But you make the rest hard too. Make me work for you. Make me earn your love. It's worth whatever price. Whatever cost. Don't let me come to expect easy with you. Make me want to work hard for you.

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

You need to see a future with such clarity and desirability that you will go through all the uncomfortable things like throws at you to attain it.

The world is now being dominated by few Giant organizations that influence and dectate our consuming behavior.

A full moon sprinkled the black ocean with diamonds, and she could imagine fairies dancing in the silver foam that laced the huge, dark waves.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.

When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.