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.

our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.