If you've managed to remain a Luddite - one who resists technology - you're surrounded by people who don't, so you're affected more than you may realize.

Most people find it extremely difficult - if not impossible - to focus in prayer.

If we can't even spend a short amount of time each day with God in solitude, our spiritual formation will be seriously stunted.

The reality is that most of us are rarely, if ever, alone with our own minds and souls. Even when we do find a few minutes of quiet, we're driven to check our devices for emails, texts, etc.

Ghosts!—They exist, they exist! Dead things playing at being alive.

The Goal is the keep the GOAL the GOAL

We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.

I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.

It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.

I can cheat fear today - but won't it return tomorrow? Rather, I must embrace this fear... and find peace in its bosom.

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.

There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings.