Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.

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.

When life presents you with a problem, have the courage, find the solution and become bigger than the problem.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

I don't regret the excitement, because I do think that it helped us accomplish as much as we did.

I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.

I became an actor by accident.

It's much easier when your team's winning. When your team starts to lose, that's where a lot of these quarterback controversies divide a locker room. The key, as a pro, is to be a pro.

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

Leadership is more doing than dash.

Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days.