That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him...

They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long time. I will find Ky, and then I will find that place.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible.

I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.