Don't waste hate on pink geranium.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.

Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.