Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

My arm hurts all the time now. It hurts right now. It never stops hurting.

The world exists for the sake of kindness.

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.