...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship.

I see the beauty in you, and the darkness. Both are brilliant.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help.

The most important job in life is being a mom.

Torture can be a two edged sword.

Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.