People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Never trust easy promises and large words. Easily said...easily taken away.

As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Remind yourself that when things don't go right, everything will be OK. And if you think that, then everything will be.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

Arnie, you're going to have to buy a bigger jet.

Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

Don't start. My mood stays better if you don't start.

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.