Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

All -isms end up in schisms.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

You are a god wrapped in flesh

Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.

I don't believe in luck. Luck comes to men of action.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.