We don’t live in a world that suffers from doubt, but one that suffers from certainty, false certainties that compensate for the well of worldly anxieties and worries.

Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.

Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than an owner can express with his tongue in hours.

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

Service is an imperative for those who worship Jesus Christ and a covenant obligation of those who belong to his Church.

Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.