Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

All -isms end up in schisms.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Don't open up doors you won't have the strength later to close, be mindful of the acts you enable.

When you address and acknowledge unpleasant realities, your creativity begins to soar and you come up with apparently magical solutions to problems.

Life is all about Re-Inventing Yourself, so that you can rejoice every moment, just un-learn and let-go of the past and no sooner you do it, you stay afresh and are born again!

Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy.

As long as you write, you'll never be lonely.

Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Might you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why?

No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.