A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however temporarily, by the amazing, circling, weaving dance of love and lust and God's involvement in it.

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.