Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

What you see to be difficult now, is likely to be the easiest thing ever later when you deliberately get your willpower trained over it by repeated attempts! Don't give up!

Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.

Films can't change the society they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.

Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! It was so much less! I'm letting him keep it. I'm saving money!

President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.