Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect to go. That’s what happens when you write stories. You listen and you say ‘a ha,’ and you write it down. A lot of it is not planned, not conscious; it happens while you’re doing it. You know more about it after you’re done.

... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.