What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.

When you have defined yourself, circumstances don’t define you – they only refine you.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

Satan must be defeated in the arena he dominates, this world. So Christ was sent into this world to destroy Satan's works.

Must be nice to be a Republican senator sometimes, because you get the fun of breaking sh*t and the joy of complaining the sh*t you just broke doesn't work.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.