Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

All -isms end up in schisms.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Falling in love is accidental, staying in love is intentional, and growing in love is delightful.

But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted everything from him: his mind, his body, his name and, most of all, his heart.

In life, if you want to be happy, choose to be optimistic.

Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.

If we leave Iraq, terrorists will follow us home.

Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want.

I have no real tattoos. I wear my bruises and tons of scars as my tattoos.

I just bring the determination to win.