If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.