God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

All of my writing is God-given.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I never fall in love.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Libraries raised me.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Youth is wasted on the young.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.