The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.

We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.

The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.

What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.

The root of prayer is interior silence.

Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?""Yes.""You called her a liar?""Yes.""You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?""Yes.""Have a biscuit, Potter.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

Dance on the edge of mystery.

Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.

The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

I just feel that you reach a point when its time to move on.

Life is short and I have some things I'd still like to do.

That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help.