It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God

I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through time eternal.

You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory.

Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing “mere” about symbols.

But the thing is that, in the end, we each must decide how comfortable we are with how much we hurt other people

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

It's not that difficult to say no when you don't want to do something.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?