Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.

If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

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

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.

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.