You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

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.

To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.

Study nature as the countenance of God.

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

Poor me, poor me, pour me another.

I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

It's my first love what I dreaming of when I go to bed, when I lay my head upon my pillow.

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.