You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.

So many things we love are you!

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints - to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.