the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

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.

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)