Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

Courage encourages courage.

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

I'm not letting go of you.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Armenians have more imagination than Mohammedans.

You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother.

Everybody is born so that they can learn to live a good life-like loving everybody and being nice, right? Well animals already know how to do that, so they don't have to live so long

All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.

When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.

It does not matter what happens when we have gone.

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

I had a lot of depression as a kid.