A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

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

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it.

At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

A new year can begin only because the old year ends.