I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

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.

If you look within your heart, I am here, and you are free.

I believed almost every negative thing that I ever heard someone say about me.

Here grew willows and alders, their trunks twisted like giants’ sinews. Around them bark lichen bloomed blue-white in the darkness. It felt like a good place, where there was old magic.

She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.

I think I'd rather be heading to detention right now than to talk to him. My stomach is tied up in so many knots it could make a boy scout envious.

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

I was the person who did academics until the middle of the day, then went on auditions. I think there was a moment later in my life where I was like, "What am I doing? Why am I so serious?" .

One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.