Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are but, more often than not, God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next.

Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.