God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

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.

A tap is a zero-length swipe.

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.

The people who matter will recognize who you are.

I never was much of a game player, but I loved to be on the computer.

...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts.

The sewer is the conscience of the city.