Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths$$$ but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea$$$ but the encounter with an event$$$ a person$$$ which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.

You can$$$ you must try to seek God in every human life. Although the life of a person is a land full of thorns and weeds$$$ there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Often it is better simply to slow down$$$ to put aside our eagerness in order to see and listen to others$$$ to stop rushing from one thing to another and to remain with someone who has faltered along the way.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat$$$ a sense of wrong$$$ a homesickness$$$ a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

Man is not the enemy here$$$ but the fellow victim. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.

Standing each by his monster$$$ they looked at each other$$$ and smiled.

Standing each by his monster$$$ they looked at each other$$$ and smiled.

And if insight were sufficient$$$ if the inner life were the whole of life$$$ their happiness has been assured.