Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

All -isms end up in schisms.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director.

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

Lenten fasts make me feel better, stronger, and more active than ever.

If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.

I hope everyone wakes up and appreciates life.

Where there is giving there must be taking.

I love action. I love doing fight scenes, I always have.

Light has a way of keeping people honest.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

I hope you will attain enlightenment. I am here to tell you that you already have! But you don't know... The difference between the Buddha and us is the confidence in knowing that he was enlightened.