Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

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...

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.