A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true human and happy life, for it is filled with concerns that are as deep as life, as wide as the whole world, and as far reaching as eternity. It is only when we have consented to love, and have agreed to forget ourselves, that we can find our fulfillment. This fulfillment will come unperceived and mysterious like the grace of God, but we will recognize it and it will be recognized in us.

There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love ... and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.