Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk!

We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.

The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.