Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

Your self is sacred; be true to it.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there.

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

Worry is spiritual short sight... Its cure is intelligent faith.

Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest.

The world is our school for spiritual discovery.

The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs

I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.

Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

The whole problem is spirituality-not finances. Spiritually strong = welfare strong.

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.

I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I'm not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that's it.

3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not.