Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.
France lost a great novel last night.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible.
The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing. . . . We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.