It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.

The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.

You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.

What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

Burning her husband's bed was a mistake. Alison could see that now.

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

It is only as we remember and embrace His generous grace toward us that we can extend it to others.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created

If you're lucky enough to have a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank account, that should be sufficient for your own personal needs, and anything more than that you've got to put to good use.

I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things.