This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

People don't believe me when I tell them I'm a magician who makes portals to other worlds. So I tell them I'm a writer instead.

Now at first you’ll feel a little dizzy, then a little numb, then you won’t feel anything at all.

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

If your vision doesn’t compel, move or stir people, your vision is too small.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

I never felt I left the stage.

The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said.

Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.