What I do is me, for that I came.

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.

Glory be to God for dappled things.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

The ultimate goal of human life is to transcend culture and personality to the unconditioned pure being. But the means to do this is through our culture and way of life.

We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

I was a spiritual kid.

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.