Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

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

True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.

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