The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

The heart speaks when it is ready.....for love keeps no time.

Have I not told youdinosaurs were past glorythey extinct big time.

My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.

We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.

We are freer than we think.

Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.