One can repent even of having repented.

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.