My favorite...continues to be Kevin Zraly's 'Windows on the World'.

Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.

Prayer is our yearning for God, the cry of our poverty and misery, stretching out toward the throne of His divine mercy.

Sometimes is necessary to fall from grace to teach indecent.

Life is like a river in which you merge. When you struggle against the current, you suffer. When you flow with the current in a smooth and fluid experience, life becomes effortless and joyful.

You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.

To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.

I love first base. I want to get better.

A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.