In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.

That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

You'll have pie in the sky when you die.

It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.

That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.