The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Everyone comes into your life to fulfill a purpose of their life. So help them with love, kindness, and care.

Hell's only the flip side of Paradise. Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the two.

We do remember once we were wrong sacrificing everything for idols and stones likewise today for ghost and phantoms.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

Work hard and be authentic. Everything else will fall into place.

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

Sometimes we just need a space that gives us permission to be the best, most full version of our artistic selves, and we flourish.