Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

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.

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.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

When you brought light to my darkness, I undiscovered the eclipse!

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

Eugene's got a fake ID, and he actually gets away with using it because he looks like he's thirty-six, thanks to his devotion to tasseled shoes and his ridiculous carpet of chest hair.

…if you will quit squirming about and be patient you will see that most things in life, wishes included, do not have immediate results.

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

Existing is plagiarism.

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.