That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.