Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over he would have put diamonds on the floor.

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.

I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain.

Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The drug trade is responsible for much of that.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.