Saints can spring from any soil.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

I guess there are never enough books.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.