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

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

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.

You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.