Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

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.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

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