Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Exercise is an unnatural act.