When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.