The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

Cordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our will.

With God there is no need for long speeches.

Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic.

... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.

An evil discovered is half healed.

Is there world enough for me?

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

I really need people to take responsibility for the kind of energy they bring to me.

Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.

Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the media that aren't true.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.