We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.

Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

There are some things in the world we can't change.

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor.