I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

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.

I want to be a guileless rook to discolor the blackness of all crafty human hearts

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

I like it when you're under the ocean, and all you can feel is calm

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

I want to be someone making music/with my coming.

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.