You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

And it seemed increasingly obvious that the world would have to topple if he was to attain the glory that was rightfully his. They were consubstantial: glory and the capsized world.

The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy.

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

Look at me and think of Schwarzenegger.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

There are no words, there's only the possibility of a moment even more incredible a little bit further down the road.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.