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

The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks.

How much more comfortable it is to say 'Yes, and...' than 'Yes, but...'.

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

Everything I do or say will be forgotten in a few short years. Yet how amazing and wonderful it is that somehow I still care, just simply care about whatever I do, and will probably do so until my dying moment.

How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place?

How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent.