The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.