A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Prayer keeps the heart pure.

The past does not exist unless you carry the remains of it with you.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

There are many places that people can produce really good food. I wouldn't limit it to an area of the country, it's what the chefs have in them.

Remember that almost everything looks better after a good night's sleep.

Entitlement never wins Championships, Investment wins Championships.

I enjoy the pleasure of my own company.

Christmas cards ... are technically only junk mail from people you know.

There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.