For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

A conscious understanding of the kind of cloth we wear, each moment of time, makes us be aware of what we must do or what we should never think of doing because of the cloth we wear!

Bridges are built not to cross over it but it is built to lift you to the other side safely.

Stories are a communal currency of humanity.

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.

I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

When you’re the best fighter in the world today, they don’t call you a great fighter. They call you Chael Sonnen.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.