God, give me by Your grace what You give to dogs by nature.

The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.

Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.

I was created in love. For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone.

Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.

From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?

I cannot dance, O Lord, unless You lead me.

One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs.

I have seen a place-its name is Eternal Hatred It is built in the deepest abyss of the stones of mortal sin. Pride was the first stone-this was seen in Lucifer.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.

Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here.

There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.

A good debater can be a good communicator. You have to communicate when you're president of the United States, and communicate effectively with the American people, and with the world.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.

The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?