What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.

Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.

It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free to be yourself.

The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

I work in a restaurant in an airport in Taiwan. I am eighteen years old and I don’t like my job because everyone gets on planes and leaves. And I want to leave too.

Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.

With our love, we could save the world.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.

I think that every record has its own life and a different sound.

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it’s probably just like a habit.

My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.