When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.

Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can.

Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love. Those who love most, see most.

Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.

It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.

... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

Those who love most, see most.

Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.

A precedent embalms a principle.

We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, "I was wrong, I'm sorry." And we also need to say, "That's all right, I love you."

In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.

Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

Strike, if you will, but listen.

I do feel like I've missed out a bit because I was really close with my sisters when I was at home. It must be weird for them but they cope really well.