To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

We do not have to have the correct answers to listen well. In fact, often the correct answers are a hindrance to listening well, for we become more anxious to give the correct answer than to hear.

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.

False belief is more emotional than true belief

Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

I cannot stress this enough - if you try to install an HDTV in a non-HDTV compatible house, you may tear the space-time continuum.

the mute protest in your own bones

In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The racer does not think of limits, only the race.