prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.

Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.

We cling to the comfortable rather than step out into the possible.

Only by emptying ourselves out before God will we find fullness within ourselves.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

I love taking chances.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.

There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.

I hope to continue my work, winning championships with my club. The acknowledgement comes naturally for those who deserve it.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.