Only by emptying ourselves out before God will we find fullness within ourselves.

Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.

We cling to the comfortable rather than step out into the possible.

prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.

Remain open to your dreams but don't be too quick to decide by what means they’ll come true.

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.

One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

I am the only candidate for mayor of London with the experience of being a transport minister.

I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.