Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.

Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.

Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

If it is worthy doing, it worth doing so well.

Every moment of the nightForever changing placesAnd they put out the star-lightWith the breath from their pale faces

Once a human being has arrived on this earth communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls.

The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.