Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.

If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.

I screwed up. Again. You're shocked, I'm sure.

I hadn’t wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.

I've been fortunate enough to travel with Oxfam several times, and they're always so well organized, so it was a good way to show the kind of work they're doing.

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.