One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

There are a dozen St. George soldiers hiding in that maze, ” my trainer said. “All hunting you. All looking to kill you. Welcome to Phase Two of your training, hatchling.

Learning and skill are things to be proud of

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.

A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee--not playing soccer, not playing football--but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?

I'm at a point in my life where I could make 20 more movies, but I want to make 20 more movies that matter to me.

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

It is kind of weird being the last gang in town.