I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget all the questions and we become like the pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

Love is the one surprise.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.