Each moment spent in prayer is like a coin put into a bank account.

Simplicity and humility are the flowers of greatness.

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.