“Your kids don’t belong to you – they’re only on loan for you to raise. They have their own lives, their own destinies. So you better get out of the way.”

Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person.

Do this work until you feel the delight of it.

Every time you lose your cool, you give that other person your power.

It’s not about how many hats you wear, it’s all about the shoes.

It’s hard to answer the question what’s wrong? When nothing is right.

I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.

If Holy Thursday, moreover, is what transforms Good Friday from an execution to a sacrifice, then Easter Sunday is what transforms the sacrifice into a sacrament.

A merry heart does good like a medicine; but a broken spirit dries the bones.

Just because you’re trash doesn’t mean you can’t do great things. It’s called garbage can, not garbage cannot.

It’s a lifestyle – train like there’s no finish line.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

Enjoy the Journey!

Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be.

We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space.

Here’s to the future, because I’m done with the past.

A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return.

First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.

Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.

What passion cannot music raise and quell!

The guidelines say all the right things, … They address all the issues that were raised as problems at the Air Force Academy.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.

I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.

Although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.