“Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.”

“I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery.”

“Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.”

“I think children have a degree of wisdom totally unknown by adults”

“What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?”

“At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.”