No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.

Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

In intercessory prayer, one seldom ends where one began.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

Wherever a doctor cannot do good he must be kept from doing harm.

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

Inner seeing has nothing to do with physical vision; it's the perception of life directly.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.

We were innocent once. How could it have gone so bad?

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.

While there's life, there is hope.