Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.

Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.

We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.

The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

We are a temple-building and a temple-attending people.

Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'