The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

You achieve greatness, not by accumulating wealth, but by becoming king, loving, forgiving, and simple.

Love without reason—bloom without season.

Revenge is like politics, one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.

Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

Well, that’s not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades.

Don't change for anyone. The people that matter don't care, and the people that care don't matter.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.