You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!

Everything can be improved.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds

Have an open mind! Have an empty cup!

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

My heart was broken when I realized my daughter had a problem. I pray every day for her.

It was a lot of fun doing the Nike commercials, too.

It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.

I must always have fresh orange juice, alkaline water and hazelnut creamer for my coffee.