I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes...

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.