True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

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.

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

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.

Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.

Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn't helped by the story that we were telling.

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.