Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.
When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.
And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.
I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.