The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants, ' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?

I don't listen to what people say, people been talking about me since I was born.

Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

Nobody ever thinks clearly at the airport.

Oh," he said to Kiyo, voice completely devoid of emotion. "I see. It's your turn again.

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.