A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

You can't hit it out of the park if you're not at the plate

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.

Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.

I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.

Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude.

Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.

A leader puts himself last then he sticks out.

My own growth comes not (just) individually, but mainly as part of a greater change for the better.