You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.

To work around and be successful in a round configuration in the theater, you have to connect with everyone.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

I tossed off a mention of the pirates early on. And they became integral to the backstory. Sometimes now I imagine them in the woods. They scare me. All men. Dirty and wearing red.

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.

That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.

Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.