Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.

The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.

Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest.

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

LIfe is just a game of chance, a dance with fate if you let it be so. Or you could chose to play by your rules to win.

I am beginning to understand the way in which memories hold us, mindfully, to the earth, by the quality of attention paid that they require to be made at all.

And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

Did someone harm you in 1962.. let go of it! Control and ride the horses of anger.

I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience.

I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need.

Don't dare a person who has nothing else left to lose.