When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.

Stop thinking about the easy way out, There's no need to go and blow the candle outBecause you're not done, You're far too young.

Know that your soul can do whatever you want it to do, because you're not your body

Higher learning undergoes emotional pressure.

That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.

When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me.

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.

Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive.