You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of love held out to a searching world.

How you approach something determines what you will see.

It is confirmation to me that beyond the material world of cause and effect, there is a dimension of spirit waiting for our recognition. We see such a small piece of all the wonder surrounding us.

Truth has to fall on fertile soil.

If stars avoided the dark, they would not be visible at night.

The Church should spend less time trying to be "relevant", which can come across as disingenuous, and more time trying to align their hearts to the authentic gospel message.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

The person determined to love others will always find a way to do so.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.

If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.