simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.

some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.

Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable.