...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

All -isms end up in schisms.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

1. You must let the pain visit.2. You must allow it teach you3. You must not allow it overstay.(Three routes to healing)

Here's some advice. Stay alive.

Perseverance and audacity generally win.

Most of all, I remember her laughing. It filled my ears. Her smile, her sparkling eyes, and her infectious laughter, along with the vistas, were limitless and unending and powerful.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

I would have given you the world if you had given me the chance.

I've done some good work and some not-good work.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.