The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.