She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

You can get what you want. You have to passionately seek the life you desire.

[On visitors after having a new baby...] "Put a lock on the door, barricade it if you have to. No one gets past that front door unless they come bearing one of two things: food or cleaning products!

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

All that I would like to be is human, having a share in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted community where the mind is given its due but the body is not distrusted

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

God designed the program of prayer as an 'apprenticeship' for eternal sovereignty with Christ.

But we'll stumble on, she and I, into our messy future. And we'll have each other.