Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence.

One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.

Life is a process of continually reordering priorities.

Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.

Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.

How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.

For some of us life is so fantastic we can't stand it.