Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.

To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, "I believe in my friend."

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.