Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

In a world where there are no longer books we have almost all of us read, the movies we have almost all of us seen are perhaps the richest cultural bond we have. They go on haunting us for years the way our dreams go on haunting us. In a way they are our dreams. The best of them remind us of human truths that would not seem as true without them. They help to remind us that we are all of us humans together.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

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