...I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the sun and moon rise or set, or burn through the fog.

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.

God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

Worldliness is an inner attitude that puts self at the center of life instead of God.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

It's difficult to protect something if it doesn't have a price.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.