I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

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.

Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.