We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.

Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less.

We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along.

Becoming like Jesus is as much as about having a relaxed and joyful heart as it is about believing and doing the right thing, as much about proper energy as about proper truth.

Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be a vital source of that grace.

Resiliency is the key to love.

The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic.

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.

Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros.

Desire is the straw that stirs the drink.

Our faith is built in the dark, in the valleys, and during the back-breaking battles in life.

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

The look she gives me is priceless - shock mixed with pure pleasure. I make a note to put that look on her face as often as possible.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

I don't like the theatre. I like plays in which the audience is addressed by the actors. I don't like seeing people talking to each other on stage as if there isn't an audience.

The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.