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

I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.

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

I think that an act of love is immortal; once tendered, it can never really be taken back.

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?

It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.

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