When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you every moment becomes a prayer.

I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.

Work only can keep even kings respectable.

When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

If I'm feeling crazy, I'll make some bacon because I'm obsessed with bacon.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.

It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.

Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.