If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.

Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.

Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

I have no faith at all in believers, because they are so far from the truths! Have respect only to those who are close to the truths!

I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.

I dont want to show clothes, I want to show my attitude, my past, present and future. I use memories and future visions and try to place them in todays world.

An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.

... And death unloads thee.