God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in when real life wasn’t quite enough.

Today I set my mind and heart on a new path. I focus my energy on love, appreciation, and my highest possibilities.

Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have done it.

Three quarters of producers don't even know who I am. The other quarter think I am dead.

She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.

Friends might be rare but they’re not irreplaceable

Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to smell the air, and feel the wind in your face

I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the President, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

I didn't grow up with my dad so I don't know much at all about my heritage.

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.