I go to my past in order to discern the future.

With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.

Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.

Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.

We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ.

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.

Tears is the voice of heart in pain, in absence of feelings one don't care what you share.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]

To come into camp and have my defensive coordinator say you won't be touched, I feel like a kid all over again.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.