There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.

Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!

The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.