There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.

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.

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.

Be happy for no reason, like a child.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.