With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.

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.

That’s what I’d ask you to do: Hope for peace. Because I know that I would love to be able to lay down my weapon and get to being a colonist. Just like you are. Just like I want to be.

All I am, and all I love, is war. I don't know who I will be if I stop. The world, if it is to survive, needs a leader, not a warmonger. The world I want to make does not require me

A lot of people think I'm snotty. So what? They never asked me out when I was serving cheeseburgers.

Remember to enjoy everything. The things that feel good, the things that hurt. It’s all gonna make you better. Stronger.

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.

As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.

The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.