Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

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.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries.

Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.

I'm for sure a workaholic. I'm a complete control freak and I take on way too many projects.

It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.