I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

There is incredible value in being of service to others.

Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.

Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think.

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is a weariness that comes. I can be with someone and everything is fine and then all of a sudden it can wash over me like a sickness, that I need the quiet of my own self. I need to unload my head and look at what I've got in there so far. See it. Think what it means. I always need to come back to being alone for a while.

My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.