Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery--which is part of its splendour.

The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.

Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.

Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.

The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day.

It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison.

Though Jesus was in torture on the cross, He thought of praying for His persecutors, of caring for His mother, of securing the good thief's salvation.

People might say that they liked honesty, but they didn’t, really.

God I have been - God I am. But quite frankly, sometimes it is all just a little too much for one small cat.

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.

Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.

The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.

It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.

Depression is sadness gone wrong

People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.