We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

All -isms end up in schisms.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.

I pray hard work hard and leave the rest to God.

Every single soul is a poem.

I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.

Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face

Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.

I can be happy with something I did, like a drawing or a dress I designed, and yet be very disappointed with the same drawing, or the same dress the day after.

Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.