There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

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.

That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.

Each musical finds its own way.

Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.