...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.

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.

I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.

There's no room for me in your world

During each encounter, ask yourself: How does this incident bring greater awareness into my life?

All passions exaggerate it is because they do that they are passions.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

Those who call the shots are never in the line of fire.

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films

We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.