Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

Time is denial's mortal enemy and is always victorious against it.

God makes his gospel attractive through his people.

Vexed sailors curse the rain for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

It couldn't be clearer, any person who holds an office of trust is not allowed to accept favors or gifts from foreign governments.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within.