The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.