The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

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.

Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle.

I am deeply in love with my life. With profound gratitude, I love and enjoy everything around me.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

There is always the fear of unknown - racism comes from people when they don't know something, they are strangers to the other side.

By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

I was a monster, a problem child.

Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.