A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

Wild nights are my glory!

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.