I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.

I hope the day that all the Christians are one. This is my dream.

Even if humans feel lots of fear, remember God will take care of you. This is a collective message because fear is contagious... This is a message of reassurance.

I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

I don't want tobecause boysdon't write poetry.Girls do.

One good friend is better than a thousand acquaintances.

Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to occupy them save playing a harp and incessantly singing.

Determination is kind of like rhythm: you can't teach it.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in Sherlock's situations. As a writer, you have to be of two minds.