With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!

A conversion is a lonely experience.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.