Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

I try not to speak to critics. It only encourages them.-Snagglepuss

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

I love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense.

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.