As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.

It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.

If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.

Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good.

Succeeding in sport is about how much practise you put in.

Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.