Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.

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.

Love the person. Hate the sin.

I do have nightmares. So what? I wouldn’t trade places with any of the f**kers I killed. Am I afraid of Hell? No. I’ve been. It’s worse than advertised but not as bad as imagined. ~ Brandon Hull

It is easier to die when the heart is full of gratitude.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of time.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

If reality TV has taught us anything, it's that you can't keep people with no shame down.

Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.