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.

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.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

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

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

True love doesn't need proof.The eyes told what heart felt.

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening.

What would it be like to hold a different girl?

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.

The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged.