It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.

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

When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.