What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.

...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the place where it first existed, some repositioning unknown to us.

From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I've cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years.

The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.

Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt.