You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling.

Planes are my foxhole. I'm always on my knees in them.

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.