Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

My heart was beating like an army on the march.

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.

There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the frosts begin, and the young spiders live through the cold by eating their mother's dead body. One can't believe that's an accident. I don't know that I imagined God as having thought it all out, but somehow He was connected with the pattern, He was the pattern.