Paradoxes are the only truths.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.