Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

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.

Together, life can bloom into something unimaginable!

I'm a sucker for sweetness. Intelligence, creativity and a sense of humor mean little to me if a person isn't also kind.

You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.

We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.

My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.

To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.