It was amazing that you did not become your grief entirely, and walk about leaking it everywhere.

Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.

The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.

Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hopes, your happiness, your luck, your moods, all yoked to his.

She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.

One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.

There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.

I am constantly reminded that we are a products of the choices we make

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.

The guilt of newborns is immense.

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

Education isn't something you can finish