Rejoice with those who rejoice." I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

For success, focus on your goal, not an obstacle.

You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all." - Matthew Farrell

Make TODAY so beautiful that your YESTERDAY is something you will smile about TOMORROW.-RVM

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?

I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.

Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out

Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.