You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.

Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust.

God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.

The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.

We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable.

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.

If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie.

I don't see myself as a violent guy.

[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images.

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

What about Sarah Palin. Donald Trump had suggested she would be in his cabinet if he won. Is she going to be in?

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.