What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

You can always make enemies of your friends, ' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.

I am but a firefly caught in his jar and when he looks at me, I can’t help but glow.

The woman you thought you talked to was like one out of my novels, nothing more than a dream, and illusion I conjured to feel better. That’s all I ever will be, unable to be that woman in real life.

Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.

I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'

I believe that God is very real.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.

I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.