Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.

Let nothing Disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, Though all things pass, God does not change. Patience wins all things. But he lacks nothing who possesses God; For God alone suffices.

Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.

Trading old broken mirrors that feed lies into our souls for new mirrors of freedom requires choices.

The best way to teach is how you live your life.

...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

The most eloquent seems to stutter.

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.