There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

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.

A little conflict can create a lot of creativity.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.

Harness the power of peers.

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

Oh my God, I can't believe what you did for me - thank you. I love you so much.

How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!