Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

Faith is the strength of existence.

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

As you step out of college, you will be spending the rest of your life in a world of accelerated disruption.

I am not in favor of a traditional free market.

Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.

And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.

If you do not advertise, you fossilize.