Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

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.

Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.

The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur

Talent will come out.

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.

We are not shooting enough professors.