Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Every child has the capacity to be everything.
You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.
The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.