What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.

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.

Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

I'd like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace.

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears

To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.