The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.

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.

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.

Am I reserved? I think I agree with that. I don't think I'm particularly original. I am quite homey, though. But then I'm also quite transient. I quite like being nomadic.

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes."

I remember people saying to us, "You're too nice. Hollywood is going to eat you up and spit you out." I never listened to them.

As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?